{"id":217973,"date":"2026-02-27T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/europes-digital-sovereignty-means-decoupling-from-u-s-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:00:25","slug":"europes-digital-sovereignty-means-decoupling-from-u-s-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/europes-digital-sovereignty-means-decoupling-from-u-s-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s Digital Sovereignty Means Decoupling From U.S. Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/02\/27\/europe-technology-digital-sovereignty-eu-decoupling-us\/?tpccu003drecirc_latest062921\">Europe&#8217;s Digital Sovereignty Means Decoupling From U.S. Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/02\/27\/europe-technology-digital-sovereignty-eu-decoupling-us\/?tpccu003drecirc_latest062921\">https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/02\/27\/europe-technology-digital-sovereignty-eu-decoupling-us\/?tpccu003drecirc_latest062921<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 04:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"foreignpolicy.com\">foreignpolicy.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech sovereignty is the new buzzword in Europe as the scale of the continent\u2019s dependence on U.S. tech companies dawns upon its leaders.\u00a0Europeans are worried that U.S. President Donald Trump, who has exploited trade and defense dependencies, may weaponize tech next\u2014 threatening to disrupt or cut off digital services, for example\u2014to extract concessions. None of the researchers, European officials, and experts that Foreign Policy spoke with deemed that possibility to be overly far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has thus begun its tech decoupling from the United States. It will take time, money, and consistent cooperation by EU members who are often split\u2014which means the outcome remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Tech sovereignty is the new buzzword in Europe as the scale of the continent\u2019s dependence on U.S. tech companies dawns upon its leaders.\u00a0Europeans are worried that U.S. President Donald Trump, who has exploited trade and defense dependencies, may weaponize tech next\u2014 threatening to disrupt or cut off digital services, for example\u2014to extract concessions. None of the researchers, European officials, and experts that Foreign Policy spoke with deemed that possibility to be overly far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has thus begun its tech decoupling from the United States. It will take time, money, and consistent cooperation by EU members who are often split\u2014which means the outcome remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>There are three different strands to Europe\u2019s tech decoupling: the creation of an attractive European social media alternative, where debate can be held freely without bots and manipulative algorithms; support for domestic manufacturing of semiconductor chips; and the creation of sovereign cloud services that offer computing resources\u00a0such as physical data storage infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, Google, and Microsoft currently fulfill more than\u00a0two-thirds of Europe\u2019s cloud computing needs. Most of the continent\u2019s advanced chips come from U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/02\/27\/europe-technology-digital-sovereignty-eu-decoupling-us\/?tpccu003drecirc_latest062921\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s Digital Sovereignty Means Decoupling From U.S. Technology https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/02\/27\/europe-technology-digital-sovereignty-eu-decoupling-us\/?tpccu003drecirc_latest062921 Publish Date: 2026-02-27 04:17:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2247309029.jpg?w=1000","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217975,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217973\/revisions\/217975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}