European reliance on US software: A digital sovereignty challenge

The standoff between the US and the EU over Greenland has heightened existing European concerns about over-dependence on the United States, particularly in the digital sector, with French President Emmanuel Macron at one point threatening the U.S. with a so-called “trade bazooka” to restrict major American tech companies—a move complicated by the EU’s deep reliance on those same companies for cloud services, professional tools like Microsoft and Google, social media, entertainment, and payment systems such as Visa; for further insight on digital sovereignty, Leila Murk, an entrepreneur at tech investment firm Meresquier Partners, shares her insights.