What you can do for European Digital Sovereignty
We pay for insurance but hope we never need it. It's the same with digital sovereignty: we should never need it, yet we really can't go without. For me, the urgency of independence from American technology really hit home in Jan 2026 when Trump imposed tariffs on the Netherlands for sending troops to Greenland to prepare an Artic NATO defense mission. America threatening to take possession of an allied, sovereign country by military force really shook Europe awake, and rightly so. Although earlier warning signs were already clearly there. Like when in May 2025 the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (based in The Hague) lost access to his Microsoft email after Trump imposed sanctions. Or maybe already back in 2018 when the US CLOUD Act was enacted, that obliges US companies to provide data "in their possession, custody, or control", regardless of where that data is stored. So while Amazon might announce products with names like AWS European Sovereign Cloud, they are not sovereign because they do not have jurisdictional immunity.