Europe’s push for digital sovereignty faces a fundamental challenge: building the capacity to deliver the infrastructure it wants to control. Nicholas Gates, Chloe Teevan, Emrys Schoemaker, Krisstina Rao and Federico Plantera explore how Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can help reduce Europe’s digital dependencies and strengthen its ability to shape its own digital future. The report looks at the growing gap between Europe’s ambitions and its capacity to deliver, and it argues that European-controlled DPI should play a central role in closing that gap. Ultimately, the report asks what it will take for Europe to turn digital sovereignty from an ambition into reality.
About the authors
Nicholas Gates is a Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe.
Chloe Teevan is the associate director for Geostrategy at ECDPM.
Emrys Schoemaker is a Senior Research fellow at the Global Governance Centre and Head of Digital and Frontier Technologies at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research.
Krisstina Rao is a digital policy specialist working across research, policy design and strategy for digital governance.
Federico Plantera is a Researcher in the Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy (GRID) unit at CEPS, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and tech policy.