EuroStack advocates see that the tide will be turned solely with sustained funding, assured authorities demand, and unified guidelines on transferring and securing knowledge.
Sebastiano Toffaletti, secretary-general of the Digital SME Alliance and one of many authors of a examine on the EuroStack, claims {that a} Purchase European Tech Act might be a decisive step towards a European cloud.
“Europe has loads of industrial capability that simply must be federated,” he mentioned.
“If the European corporations have been reassured that governments would purchase from them, then they’d instantly make investments and overcome the fragmentation,” he mentioned. The identical goes for AI, he added.
Sarah Knafo, a French far-right European lawmaker, recommended in a draft report for the European Parliament that governments ought to favor sourcing from European corporations in some “strategic markets.” The Fee has individually really helpful a “purchase European” push for governments buying climate-friendly merchandise.
Cybersecurity entrepreneur Bert Hubert, who has suggested the Dutch authorities, mentioned “it’s insanity to proceed transferring the working of European societies and governments to American clouds,” in line with a February weblog publish.
