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# ECIPE paper: EU cloud sovereignty rules push 100 percent domestic awards
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-10-19-ecipe-cloud-sovereignty-procurement-paper/
- Published: 2026-10-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-19T10:59:43.000Z
- Description: ECIPE's Bauer, Dugo, Erixon, Pandya and Sisto analyse 8,725 EU cloud contracts (2018 to 2025): sovereignty rules push sole-bidder rates from 28 percent to 46 percent and yield 100 percent domestic awards. They say the Cloud and AI Development Act conflates security with ownership.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [ECIPE occasional paper, 19 October 2026](https://ecipe.org/publications/cloud-sovereignty-and-the-single-market/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that CADA's final text will adopt the paper's proposed security-based assurance criteria.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Opinion argues CADA's EU-wide assurance tiers should test security, not ownership; proposed, not adopted. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)