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Comment by Cristina Caffarra
Competition economist; Honorary Professor at UCL; founder of the EuroStack Foundation
As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. [...] In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control of critical infrastructure.
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(2026)
2mo ago
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Verified quote attributed to Cristina Caffarra from her Project Syndicate commentary "Magical Thinking Won't Make Europe an AI Power" (March 2026). Project Syndicate URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the verbatim text: "As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach" and "In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control of critical infrastructure." Year (2026) is current and matches the source date. Author attribution confirmed — Caffarra is a competition economist and founder of the EuroStack Foundation, a leading advocate for European digital sovereignty. Source URL is the primary source (her own bylined Project Syndicate article). Vote alignment: the statement is "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers"; Caffarra explicitly advocates building European sovereign infrastructure to reduce US dependence, so a "for" vote matches.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 12d ago
replying to Cristina Caffarra