EU digital sovereignty is autonomy via cooperation, not isolation. To avoid being a regulator without infrastructure, pursue managed interdependence with two pillars: developing tech industry and build DPI (EUDI Wallet and Digital Euro). Forge alliances (India, Brazil) to scale sovereign platforms.
While Europe defends money as a public good through the Digital Euro, the USA delegates its future to private, opaque, and profit-driven stablecoins. This is not merely a technical clash, but a battle between democratic control and market power.
Europe's response to technological dependence cannot be purely national nor aim to replicate big tech. What's needed is Digital Cooperation: global alliances, shared investments, and interoperable infrastructures to achieve strategic autonomy through governed interdependence.
