#EuroStack: European Strategic Sovereign Digital Infrastructures (Pitch Paper)

This “pitch paper” summarises a high-level vision for what we describe as the EuroStack: a Europe-led “digital supply chain”. It is the product of contributions by volunteers in their private capacity, with no lobbying affiliation. No funding has been received by anyone associated with this paper from any source.

“EuroStack” is an umbrella term for a European tech infrastructure intended to create local capacity along the digital value chains which enable the provision of digital products and services – from chips to data to compute to connectivity. The term originates as a catchy shorthand for “Investment in European Public Digital Infrastructure”, borrowing in part from the successful “India Stack” concept now popular across the world. The objective is to reduce Europe’s current total dependency on non-European actors for service to European citizens, businesses, and institutions, to enhance security, create redundancy and resilience, improve opportunities for innovation and digital competitiveness while establishing European governance rules.