All European tech leaders should read the EuroStack report by the Bertelsmann Foundation: https://www.euro-stack.info/

It does an excellent job recommending realistic policies to leverage Europe's surprising (and often underappreciated) strengths, promote sovereignty in hardware & software, reduce risky foreign dependencies, and grow the economy through healthy collaboration.

#OpenSource #Sovereign #Europe

It's a long ~128-page read covering the full stack from rare earths to open source cloud software and standards, but absolutely worth it.

Alternatively, listen to audio summary at https://otto.podcast.audio/@otto/episodes/summary-of-the-eurostack-report

Summary of the EuroStack report

Audio summary of the EuroStack report published by the Bertelsmann Foundation in 2025. Generated using NotebookLM.

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Note that this report and website is separate from the EuroStack movement at https://eurostack.eu/, which originated from a multiparty conference organized at the European Parliament on 24 September 2024: Towards European Digital Independence: Building the EuroStack.
Euro Stack | Building Europe’s digital future

A European Industrial Policy initiative bringing together tech, governance and funding for Europe-focused investment to build and adopt a suite of digital infrastructures

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