Building European Technology Sovereignty for Democratic Resilience

Summary of the resolution
‘Building European Technology Sovereignty for Democratic Resilience’

The resolution covers a wide range of policy areas. Its major proposals include:

1. Requiring the EU and European governments to prioritise European cloud providers for public-sector and critical infrastructure procurement, develop common European procurement standards for sovereign cloud services, and ensure that sensitive public-sector data is stored and processed under European jurisdiction.
    
2. Coordinating a transition towards European and open-source software solutions in public administration, schools, hospitals, and municipalities, alongside Europe-wide interoperability standards to prevent fragmentation between Member States.
    
3. Investing in European alternatives for office software, communication tools, and operating systems, and introducing open-source procurement criteria in public tenders.
    
4. Reducing dependence on non-European payment gatekeepers, drawing lessons from successful real-time payment systems such as India’s UPI and Brazil’s Pix, incentivising merchants to offer European payment systems, and ensuring that European payment infrastructure is hosted and processed within Europe.
    
5. Creating trusted European alternatives for strategic data systems used by governments and critical services.
    
6. Preventing sensitive public and critical infrastructure data from being transferred to hostile third-country jurisdictions.
    
7. Introducing cybersecurity-by-design requirements for energy infrastructure connected to European grids.
    
8. Coordinating industrial policy to ensure resilient semiconductor supply chains.
    
9. Investing in digital literacy, platform accountability, and the protection of democratic processes from algorithmic manipulation as foundations of democratic resilience.
    
10. Reducing dependence on external political approval for critical defence systems and spare parts.

Overall, this is a Europe-wide resolution focused on strengthening democratic resilience and cooperation with European allies.

Full text of the ALDE 2026 motion can be found here.