Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’ is an attack against US innovators

U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick traveled to Brussels recently to meet with their counterparts to finalize the trade deal framework announced over the summer.

While the outline of the deal remains promising, our European allies are thinly masking their latest attempt to target U.S. companies with regulatory complexity in hopes of skirting the spirit and possibly letter of the draft agreement. Lutnick rightfully made clear the Europeans’ digital regulatory regime would need to be rebalanced before any other progress could be made.

This confrontation was needed. At a recent European Digital Sovereignty Summit in Berlin, leaders from the European Union and its member countries gathered under the auspices of showcasing unwavering European resolve in pursuit of “greater European digital sovereignty.” But beneath the surface lies their latest tactic aimed less at fairness and innovation than at targeting U.S. tech firms.

The EU’s recent actions, including the launch of 

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