Europe needs to fight back against US software dominance – and now is the time

By Francesco Grillo, Academic Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University

Europe’s relationship with American technology increasingly resembles an addiction. The patient knows it’s bad for them but cannot quite bring themselves to break it, because they don’t not know where to start. And yet everyone agrees that the longer the addict waits, the higher the price of the addiction becomes.

That is the real question that decades of conferences on what we rhetorically call Europe’s “digital sovereignty” have talked around without ever answering.

What Europe has lost is not simply any leadership in what are called “digital markets” – it is actually…

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