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We're used to countries increasingly looking at technology as a geopolitical imperative. If you

rely on tech produced

elsewhere, not only does that open you up to potential spying and hacking, but also in a time of

conflict, you could be without access to key tech. We're used to this sort of thinking vis-à-vis

China and the West, but what this segment suggests is that there are multiple angles of concern

here. More than 100 EU companies have penned a letter

to European lawmakers to take, quote, radical action to cut the reliance on foreign big tech

by fostering a so-called Eurostack. Quoting TechCrunch, companies spanning areas including cloud,

telecoms, defense, along with several regional business and startup associations

have put their names to a letter which was sent to the commission on Sunday,

urging the block to switch its technology strategy onto a quasi-war footing by committing to support

sovereign digital infrastructure. The plan pushes for reducing reliance on foreign-owned big tech

by actively fostering development

of a so-called Eurostack. The European digital infrastructure pitch is not coming out of thin air,

a Eurostack paper written by among others. The competition economist Christina Kaffara was published

in January, fleshing out the strategy in some detail. There has also been, over the last

half year or so, a smattering of conference chatter turning over the potential for enterprising Europeans

to seize a geopolitically fraught moment to press the case for the EU to adopt a digital industrial

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