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EuroStack
European digital policy initiative From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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EuroStack is a joint initiative of academics, politicians and commentators aimed at building an independent European digital infrastructure to limit the dependence of the European Union on foreign technology and US companies.[1][2]
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Origin of the term
The EuroStack discussion was initiated in September 2024 at a conference hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels.[3]
In February 2025, a group of academics, jointly with the Bertelsmann Stiftung and CEPS launched a fully-fledged initiative. The academics group included Francesca Bria and Paul Timmers.
In June 2025, the proposal received the support of European Parliament's ITRE Committee.[4]
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Call on the European Institutions
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EuroStack advocates put forward that 80% of European technology is imported creating a dependency on US Big Tech and China. The EuroStack initiative calls to mobilize €300 billion over 10 years to invest in European technological independence.[2]
In their commentary in Foreign Policy in February 2025, Francesca Bria and Haroon Sheikh presented the EuroStack as Europe's last chance to preserve its sovereignty in the digital age.[5] Advocates of EuroStack have repeatedly referred to the risk of the EU becoming a digital colony.[4]
Cecilia Rikap and Aline Blankertz warned against the protectionism undertone of the initiative to break away from US tech dependency. Rikap and Blankertz recognize the threat to democracy that the dependency on US tech represents. They argue for a measured approach of investing in core technologies, in particular cloud services, instead of writing large checks to subsidize aspirational national champions. European public procurement, would be one important strand in a EuroStack strategy according to the two economists.[6]
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Controversy on trademark ownership
Sebastiano Toffaletti and Cristina Caffarra, two tech company lobbyists have embarked on a legal battle over the right to derive profits from the use of the brand EuroStack. Both consider themselves to be founders of the initiative and ownership right to the trademark. Toffaletti filed a claim first with the European Union Intellectual Property Office, that Caffarra is contesting on the grounds of her alleged ownership[7] Caffarra was initially associated with the public initiative together with Francesca Bria. The spat between Caffarra and other participants led to confusion among commentators as to which initiative is rightly referred to as EuroStack.[7]
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