Digital Sovereignty:
Why Now
Three forces are turning digital sovereignty from policy debate into IT planning reality: legal exposure, cost dependency, and procurement mandates.
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Digital Sovereignty:
Germany Mandates Open Formats:
The End of .docx in Government
Germany bans Microsoft Office formats across all government levels. Only ODF and PDF allowed from 2027. What this means for 5.4 million public employees.
Read more →The World Map
of Digital Dependency
Payments, cloud, identity, communications — every region on Earth is digitally dependent, but the dependencies differ. A survey by continent.
Read more →Technology as Leverage:
Europe’s Digital Dependency Under Scrutiny
From Iran to Russia to the first US company on a supply chain risk list: how the US wields technology as leverage and what European businesses must know.
Read more →When Critical Services Go Dark:
Risk Audit and Contingency Planning
A French judge lands on a US sanctions list and loses all payment access in Europe. The infrastructure that failed him is what European businesses run on.
Read more →When Safety Becomes Negotiable:
What Anthropic’s Reversal Means
Anthropic weakens its AI safety commitments under government pressure. Why this shift concerns anyone relying on AI technology.
Read more →Pentagon vs. Anthropic
The Pentagon invokes a 1950 war-production law to compel access to AI technology. Why the Anthropic case concerns every US-based technology company.
Read more →Sovereignty Washing Explained
Germany's Deutschland-Stack faces criticism from the Open Source Business Alliance for allowing proprietary software under a sovereignty label. What it means.
Read more →Grist Joins France's Suite Numérique
Open-source spreadsheet Grist joins France's sovereign Suite Numérique, reaching 20,000 monthly active users across 15 ministries and all prefectures.
Read more →Copilot Bypasses DLP, Leaks Emails
A bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat let the AI summarise emails marked 'confidential' — bypassing Data Loss Prevention policies for weeks.
Read more →Who Controls Your Login?
From 'Sign in with Google' to the EU Digital Identity Wallet: who authenticates 450 million EU citizens, and what the Dutch DigiD case reveals.
Read more →The Limits of Digital Independence
Digital independence is a risk strategy, not a religion. Where sovereignty becomes counterproductive — and a framework for what to control vs. rent.
Read more →Sovereign Workplace vs. Microsoft 365
openDesk, LaSuite, Tchap, Nextcloud: European governments are building open-source alternatives to Microsoft 365. Some are working. An honest assessment.
Read more →Europe's Cloud: Sovereignty vs. Scale
European cloud providers are cheaper, legally safer, and perfectly capable. So why do 70% of European workloads still run on US hyperscalers?
Read more →AI Sovereignty: Who Owns the Models
Mistral's rise, Aleph Alpha's pivot, DeepSeek's shock — and the question of who controls the AI models becoming critical infrastructure.
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Munich, Schleswig-Holstein, the French Gendarmerie, the Italian military: four approaches to public-sector digital sovereignty and their lessons.
Read more →Digital Sovereignty: Status Quo 2026
From Merz's Munich speech to the Macron summit to the EU Parliament vote: Europe has recognised its tech dependency. Will words become action?
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