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ECIPE paper: EU cloud sovereignty rules push 100 percent domestic awards

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.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted ECIPE occasional paper, 19 October 2026

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

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

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