The Emperor's New Cloud
Europe can decide whom it obeys.
The architecture of European digital dependency, and the case for building something else.
Papers
The twenty-eight papers that make the case in full. Filter by cluster or by reader role.
The Case
The architecture: principles, eight laws, twelve sovereignty stacks, and the patterns that run through them.
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Aligned Voices
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Europe wrote the laws without building the infrastructure they assume.
The Emperor's New Cloud, by Matthew Breen, diagnoses Europe's digital dependency across twenty-eight papers and prescribes how to escape it. The case rests on legal facts European institutions have already established under Schrems II, the European Essential Guarantees, and the rights written into GDPR, DORA, NIS2, MiCA, the AI Act and the Cyber Resilience Act.