The same guide in text
Europe wants to rely less on others for its technology. The Sovereignty Monitor tracks whether it does.
Every item sits in one of four areas: policy and law, compute and infrastructure, defence and space, and industry, investment and R&D.
The front page reads top down: the lead story, then one column per area, newest first. At the foot of each column, the area's net direction since the first issue: moves towards autonomy, minus moves away.
Open an item and start with the grade. Verified: the primary document was opened and read. Reported: the primary document could not be reached, so the claim rests on a named secondary source, and counts at half weight.
Then read What it does not test: the limits of the evidence. A proposal is not yet a law.
How this item counts gives its weight in the Sovereignty Index, and which way it pushes.
AI-drafted means a model wrote the text from the cited source and no person read it before publication. Editor-read means a person read it first.
Still open means the story is not over. The item says what the Monitor is waiting for, and the front page shows the date it checks again. When the answer arrives, it appears under What came next, and the new item lists this one under Earlier in this story.
Behind the news sit the stack map, the ledger of public money, the regulation timeline, and the index that adds it all up.
Check the grade. Read the limits. Watch what is still open. The full rules are on the Method page.
How this video was made
Made on 30 September 2026 by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the live site, and reviewed by the editor before publication. The pages on screen are rebuilt from the site as it stood that day, so the items and figures in them will date. The music was synthesized in code. There is no narration yet; the text above is the same guide in words, with a little more detail than the video.