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... While Brussels champions policy initiatives and American tech giants market their own sovereign' solutions, a handful of public authorities in Austria, Germany, and France, alongside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, are taking concrete steps to regain control over their IT.

These cases provide a potential blueprint for a continent grappling with its technological autonomy, while simultaneously revealing the deep-seated legal and commercial challenges that make true independence so difficult to achieve. ...

Another example of Pres Trump pushing away our allies in favor of his adulation of Pres Putin?