Europe’s tightrope walk on tech sovereignty

Financial Times: Yet few initiatives require such a delicate balancing act as the push to assert European “tech sovereignty” set out in a sweeping legislative package on Wednesday. The bloc needs to avoid damaging EU competitiveness — or even security — by curtailing access to leading-edge US technologies as it tries to nurture European alternatives that may be less advanced, more expensive or entirely lacking. It must avoid antagonising, too, a Trump White House that views EU tech regulation as aimed squarely at stifling US dynamism…