ECIPE urges EU to define cloud sovereignty by control, not ownership

ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon and Dyuti Pandya argue the EU's draft Cloud and AI Development Act should define sovereignty as business control over data, not EU ownership. They warn its tiered assurance rules, which favour EU-owned suppliers, risk excluding competitive non-EU cloud providers.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted ECIPE policy insight, 3 November 2026

What the source does not establish. This is ECIPE's own policy argument and does not establish whether EU lawmakers will adopt or amend CADA's ownership-based assurance tiers.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. opinion on EU-wide CADA assurance tiers; moves no question until adopted. European Sovereignty Index

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