Arthur Rönig Baer talks about the future potential and threats of the EU’s project of claiming digital sovereignty. ‘Chinese and American digital infrastructure monopolies are solidifying, increasing the friction between San Francisco flavoured platform-capitalism, Beijing’s Great Firewall, and supposed European values. What is the way forward for pan-european digital infrastructure? Could the European Stack be a project about, and model for, a solidarity-based politics? Or does it merely enable deep-rooted colonial fantasies to take new form?’