Is Europe too dependent on American tech companies? From cloud services and AI infrastructure to email and data storage, much of Europe’s digital economy runs on technology controlled by US firms. At the same time, China is becoming an increasingly powerful competitor.
In this episode of The Dip, DW’s Kassandra Sundt speaks with Proton COO Raphael Auphan and EuroStack Initiative chair Cristina Caffarra about digital sovereignty, Big Tech dominance, Europe’s investment gap, AI, cloud infrastructure and whether European technology companies can realistically compete with Google, Microsoft, Amazon and China’s rising tech champions. #dwbusiness #dwdip
00:00 Is Europe becoming a digital colony?
01:00 Meet the guests: Cristina Caffarra and Raphael Auphan
02:27 Why Europe focused on regulating apps instead of infrastructure
04:01 "Europe is already a digital colony"
06:09 What digital sovereignty actually means
07:54 The "kill switch" risk and dependence on US providers
09:22 Cloud, chips and AI: where Europe’s real dependency lies
13:25 Can European tech companies compete with Big Tech?
17:01 Why Europe struggles to switch away from American platforms
20:06 Europe has the startups. So what’s missing?
21:09 The €14 trillion funding problem
22:43 What would help European tech scale up?
25:05 Where Europe can still win: AI, cloud and infrastructure
26:18 Can Europe rebuild its own tech stack?
27:35 Final thoughts
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