Europe in the Sovereignty Triangle: Analysis of Digital Dependencies (heise.de)

• Three dependencies: market, technology, law – all with US and China links.
• CADA as blueprint for cloud regulation, but open-source strategy absent.
• State as anchor customer hindered by proprietary legacy; Schleswig-Holstein as pioneer.

"The EU faces three core dependencies: market dominance through vendor lock-in, technological reliance on US open-source supply chains, and legal conflicts from extraterritorial US law. The Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) may serve as a blueprint, but technological dependency remains hard to regulate. The state as an anchor customer could foster scalable EU models, yet a consistent open-source strategy is lacking."