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Comment by Christian Klein
CEO of SAP SE, Europe's largest software company
From my perspective, digital sovereignty means the ability to exercise choice, control and governance across data, operational, technical and legal layers. This is not about technological isolation or excluding global partners. Europe must remain open to innovation and international cooperation.AI Verified source (2026)
21d ago
Policy proposals and claims
votes Against
Statement relation comments
AI Verified
The quote clearly implies opposition to restricting the initiative to EU member states: the author says digital sovereignty is "not about ... excluding global partners" and that Europe "must remain open to ... international cooperation," which conflicts with an EU-only restriction.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
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AI Verified
The quote rejects exclusion: it says digital sovereignty is "not about ... excluding global partners" and that "Europe must remain open to innovation and international cooperation," which opposes restricting the initiative to EU member states.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
Quote authenticity verification history
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AI Verified
The passage is supported as real and verbatim: the SAP Africa News Center page contains the same wording in consecutive quoted sentences, and the surrounding text explicitly attributes the remarks to Christian Klein (“says Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE” / “he says”). The same text also appears in the original IT-Online article dated February 23, 2026, which the SAP page says it first appeared on. ([news.sap.com](https://news.sap.com/africa/2026/02/what-digital-sovereignty-really-means-in-a-fragmented-world/?amp=1))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
The primary source_url (news.sap.com) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch, but the quote was independently confirmed verbatim via web search across multiple outlets, including a mirror of the same Feb 2026 SAP article on IT-Online and coverage on SAPinsider. Christian Klein (CEO of SAP SE) did say digital sovereignty "means the ability to exercise choice, control and governance across data, operational, technical and legal layers... This is not about technological isolation or excluding global partners. Europe must remain open to innovation and international cooperation." Author attribution is correct. Vote alignment checks out: the statement is "The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US cloud providers," and Klein explicitly opposes the isolationist framing of excluding global (US) partners (cf. Cloud Wars "Klein Saves Europe from 'Sovereign' Disaster"), so an "against" vote is appropriate. Year 2026 is recent.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 21d ago
replying to Christian Klein