Papers

Twenty-eight papers diagnosing Europe's digital dependency and the architecture to undo it. Filter by role to narrow to what matters to you; the cluster structure is the editorial argument.

Primer

Paper 0: Why Sovereign Data Matters

CitizenMEPJournalistCivil Society

Define

Paper 1: The Sovereignty Illusion

Why Most European Organisations Have Lost Control of Their Data and Don't Know It

CitizenMEPCloudFinancialAIMedicalDefenceJournalistResearcherCivil Society

Paper 2: The Sovereignty Stack

A stack is only as sovereign as its weakest layer.

MEPCloudAIDefenceResearcher

Paper 3: Sovereignty Washing Being finalised

Where sovereignty cannot be supplied, the word is redefined.

MEPCloudJournalistCivil Society

Paper 4: Privacy and Sovereignty Being finalised

Privacy is sovereignty applied to citizens.

CitizenMEPCivil SocietyResearcher

Paper 5: The Quantum Resilience Paradox Being finalised

Cryptographic primitives are the meta-trust layer.

MEPCloudFinancialDefenceResearcher

Paper 6: State-Anchored Capitalism

How Europe Bought the Free-Market Myth

MEPJournalistResearcherCivil Society

Paper 7: The Imported Constitution Being finalised

European treaties subordinate cultural and social principles to single-market rules.

MEPJournalistResearcherCivil Society

Paper 8: Pipeline Europe Never Built Being finalised

Customer-shaped products win; report-shaped products lose.

MEPDefenceAICloudResearcher

Paper 9: Innovation Capture Pipeline Being finalised

The innovation Europe produces is captured before it reaches scale.

MEPAICloudJournalistResearcher

Money

Paper 10: The Dollar Digital Continuum Being finalised

From gold to dollars to clouds: one structure, five mediums.

MEPFinancialJournalistResearcher

Paper 11: The Payments Trap Being finalised

Currency sovereignty without rail sovereignty is rhetoric.

MEPFinancialCitizenCivil Society

Paper 12: The Stablecoin Stack Being finalised

A stablecoin is sovereign at every layer or at none.

MEPFinancial

Paper 13: The Decentralisation Illusion Being finalised

A protocol can be distributed and the system around it centralised.

MEPFinancialCloudResearcher

Paper 14: The Digital Euro Being finalised

A digital euro without a sovereign physical stack is a Position 4 product.

MEPFinancialCitizen

Paper 15: The Wholesale Digital Euro Being finalised

Wholesale settlement is the layer where dollar-clearing leverage becomes operational.

MEPFinancial

Infrastructure

Paper 16: The Submarine Cable Question Being finalised

Cable ownership is data jurisdiction by another name.

MEPCloudDefence

Paper 17: Space and Satellite Sovereignty Being finalised

Space sovereignty is procurement sovereignty.

MEPDefenceResearcher

Paper 18: European Military Sovereignty Being finalised

Defence systems running on American components are operable at American discretion.

MEPDefence

Paper 19: Borrowed Eyes Being finalised

Allied operations are foreign collection without operational doctrine that says so.

MEPDefenceCivil Society

AI, Identity, Medical

Paper 20: The AI Europe Rents Being finalised

Every argument for why Europe needs American frontier AI is an argument for why Europe must own the AI it uses.

MEPAICloudResearcher

Paper 21: The Identity Paradox Being finalised

Identity sovereignty operationalises citizenship.

MEPCitizenCivil Society

Paper 22: The Medical Inheritance Being finalised

Medical secrecy is the inheritance that does not survive Position 4 infrastructure.

MedicalCitizenCivil SocietyMEP

Information & Open Source

Paper 23: Information Sovereignty Being finalised

What Europeans know about their world is filtered by algorithms they cannot audit.

MEPCivil SocietyJournalistCitizen

Paper 24: The Open Source Sovereignty Gap Being finalised

Open source is a moral architecture American platform owners have operated as a strategic instrument.

MEPCloudAIResearcher

The Build

Paper 25: The Myth of Inevitable Dependence Being finalised

Every successful European refusal followed the same pattern.

MEPJournalistCivil Society

Paper 26: The Sovereign Incentive Model Being finalised

Mandated demand defines the floor; tax architecture and investment routes capital through the architecture at every scale.

MEPFinancialResearcher

Paper 27: Whom You Obey Being finalised

Sovereignty is a property of who can be compelled; the European project answers, us, by our own institutions, under our own law.

CitizenMEPCivil SocietyJournalist