Public Procurement as a Strategic Lever for Digital Sovereignty
This policy brief explores how public procurement can serve as a primary demand-side driver to establish digital sovereignty across the European Union.
The resource addresses a critical threat to governance: public bodies frequently entrench themselves in proprietary, closed digital ecosystems managed by dominant, non-EU technology hyperscalers.
This severe dependence limits the EU’s capability to enforce its own regulatory norms, introduces national security risks via exposure to foreign jurisdictional surveillance, and presents prohibitive switching costs that bind public functions to commercial and geopolitical logics. The brief argues that achieving digital sovereignty requires moving beyond mere regulatory oversight of foreign big tech; public institutions must actively utilize their immense purchasing power to foster credible, localized options.
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