The EU too is corrupt as fuck, except for the EU Parliament (and even then, in the main rather than all of it).
Certainly the unelected EU Commissions are very much the willful bitches of American big companies, most notably Big Tech and Big Finance.
As long as the executive of the EU is the unelected commission, don’t expect anything to trully challenge the dominance of big American Tech companies in Europe - at most we’ll get some symbolic, watered down for optics only measures.
It’s not as if overexposure to American Big Tech and the strategic risks and negative economic impact for EU companies of it is something new - it’s a problem that’s been growing for over 2 decades and has reached massive proportions already a decade ago. They haven’t done anything meaningful about because they don’t want to, not because it wasn’t a problem before.
Overall that is the problem, yes. But the efforts of Spain, France and Germany on digital sovereignty are promising. Ireland – the real willful bitches of this story – on the other hand is holding them and the EU back.
The EU too is corrupt as fuck, except for the EU Parliament (and even then, in the main rather than all of it).
Certainly the unelected EU Commissions are very much the willful bitches of American big companies, most notably Big Tech and Big Finance.
As long as the executive of the EU is the unelected commission, don’t expect anything to trully challenge the dominance of big American Tech companies in Europe - at most we’ll get some symbolic, watered down for optics only measures.
It’s not as if overexposure to American Big Tech and the strategic risks and negative economic impact for EU companies of it is something new - it’s a problem that’s been growing for over 2 decades and has reached massive proportions already a decade ago. They haven’t done anything meaningful about because they don’t want to, not because it wasn’t a problem before.
Overall that is the problem, yes. But the efforts of Spain, France and Germany on digital sovereignty are promising. Ireland – the real willful bitches of this story – on the other hand is holding them and the EU back.