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Can We Really Build a “European Stack”… Without First Building National Stacks?
That is the open question posed by our president Alexandre Zapolsky.
Behind the debates on digital sovereignty lies a simple reality: sovereignty can only exist if it actually creates value locally, in each of the countries that compose it.
For our president, everything hangs on that point:
“We will not build a European stack if each country does not find its own benefit.”
To illustrate, he relies on a very concrete analogy. Airbus, for example, would not exist if a single country concentrated the whole value chain. It works precisely because this model is shared among several countries, which makes it sustainable over the long term.
According to him, this logic applies fully to the digital realm. Choosing a software is never a neutral act: it also directs value, and therefore contributes, directly or indirectly, to one economic model rather than another.
“Our clicks are our jobs.”
For Alexandre Zapolsky, the issue is to avoid replacing one dependency (American or Chinese) with another, even European. In other words, constructing a European digital sovereignty first requires finding a balance between the contributions and the benefits of each country.
A statement that brings the debate back to concrete foundations.
