Zeitung für Deutschland: There can be no European tech sovereignty until Europe gets its act together

It's 19:45 and I am sitting on a delayed train at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, having arrived on another train that was first delayed and then partially cancelled somewhere between Munich and Cologne.

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG FÜR DEUTSCHLAND, it says in enormous letters across the train shed. Well, here's some Zeitung.

Technological sovereignty is not a software category. It is not achieved by passing another regulation, funding a handful of AI start-ups or commissioning a sovereign cloud.

Sovereignty is the ability to make a decision - and cause something to happen.

A continent that cannot reliably move people between its major cities, construct power lines, renovate buildings, procure weapons together or turn scientific discoveries into globally scaled companies will not become technologically sovereign by rhetoric.