Selected Research
Shaping the Debate
A selection of external research and commentary contributing to the debate on Europe's digital sovereignty.
Cristina Caffarra — Escape Forward, 26 August 2026
AI Sovereignty is Stack Control, not Weight-of-Origin Fetishism
Sovereignty is not merely about having a European model; it depends on control of the infrastructure, compute, cloud, inference and the rest of the stack.
Le Grand Continent — Le Grand Continent, 28 July 2026
Pourquoi l'IA, c'est Thémis plutôt que Prométhée
European AI is defined less by a race for the general-purpose model than by an ambition of regulation, trust and democratic steering of technological power.
Thibault Schrepel — The Competition System, 13 July 2026
The Paperwork of Independence
The regulatory corpus designed to strengthen European digital sovereignty paradoxically limits the ability of European firms to scale.
Le Grand Continent — Le Grand Continent, 8 July 2026
Opération Prométhée : la France peut gagner la course à l'IA, quel en serait le prix ?
France has the assets to compete in the global AI race, but the question of the price to pay — economic, industrial and strategic — remains open.
Kaltheuner, Saari & AI Now Institute — EU AI Industrial Policy Monitor, 30 June 2026
How AI Keeps Europe Hooked on US Cloud
The article highlights the dependence of the European AI ecosystem on the three major US cloud providers.
Nathan Benaich — State of AI, 21 June 2026
Europe cannot rent its way to AI sovereignty
Europe's dependence on foreign infrastructure and models, and the vulnerability of merely “renting” essential technological capabilities.
Kaltheuner, Saari & AI Now Institute — EU AI Industrial Policy Monitor, 16 June 2026
The Limits of Building European AI on Borrowed Models
The emergence of European firms at the application layer does not necessarily mean Europe captures the value if the underlying layers remain controlled elsewhere.
Frederike Kaltheuner, Leevi Saari & AI Now Institute — EU AI Industrial Policy Monitor, 4 June 2026
AI Sovereignty in a Captured Ecosystem
We must look at the ecosystems and vertical dependencies that structure the AI market.