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The EU sovereignty trap

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The European Union is once again legislating sovereignty with its proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, or CADA . The legislation would establish a four-level sovereignty framework for cloud services used by EU institutions and public-sector organizations, with the most sensitive workloads (defense, national security, justice, and law enforcement) required to run on services at the higher assurance levels. The thinking is straightforward: With AWS, Microsoft, and Google controlling roughly 70% of Europe’s cloud infrastructure market, the continent’s public sector is exposed to overseas laws, mostly American ones, in ways that make Brussels uncomfortable. Not everyone in Europe is on board, and that’s where the story gets interesting. According to Financial Times , defense officials from several member states, particularly the eastern and Nordic countries closest to a contested border, are pushing back. Their argument is practical, not ideological. Stricter sovereignty rules could rest