I also contrast democratic sovereignty with privatized sovereignty—the tech oligarchy. Europe is deeply dependent on foreign infrastructure: roughly 80% of the technology we use is imported; about 90% of cloud services are subject to the U.S. CLOUD Act; around 90% of chips we use come from Taiwan and South Korea; rare earths are processed in China; AI models aren’t made here; our data is continuously mined by these companies. That’s not just a trade deficit; it’s a sovereignty deficit.