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Initiatives such as Eurostack and Gaia-X proposed alternative home-grown tech stacks that operate according to EU “values
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Switzerland’s government reportedly assessed using Palantir, the US-based data analytics firm backed by the CIA and others, and decided against it because the risk to data sovereignty was too great.
Key facts
- At the turn of 2025, as Donald Trump began his second presidency, Vice President JD Vance’s first address to Europe already signaled a major break with the bloc
- By January 2027, hyperscalers must offer their customers interoperability, along with an easy route out of long contracts, to limit vendor lock-in
- Since Trump’s inauguration, the aims of Silicon Valley have seemed to line up with the US’s foreign policy goals
- Introduced by Trump in his first term, 2018’s CLOUD Act stipulates that American intelligence agencies can access any data that they like, provided that it touches US-owned infrastructure
Summary
At the turn of 2025, as Donald Trump began his second presidency, Vice President JD Vance’s first address to Europe already signaled a major break with the bloc. In what has become known as the Munich Speech, Vance spent much of his time decrying European values, chastising member states about their internal politics, and undermining the long-running transatlantic relationship, suggesting that it was conditional after all. Policymakers panicked. The President’s actions elsewhere in the world, which have seen him invade Venezuela and capture its President Nicolás Maduro, and launch a bombing campaign against Iran that has now been ongoing for more than three months, have underlined the unpredictability of the regime in Washington. Though Trump rowed back on his threats to Greenland, his sabre-rattling - and the Munich speech - made crystal clear the enormous vulnerabilities inherent in relying on US tech.