The EU’s Fair-Weather Cloud Partnership
The European Union (EU) is offering its allies a foothold in its cloud market—with little room to move. They could own a cloud business, provided EU citizens do the work and the operations and data stay inside the bloc. And even that permission could be revoked. Europe and its allies would both do better with a true digital trade deal.
Canada is heading to a summit with the EU in Montreal, reportedly seeking this “associated country” status under the proposed EU Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA). United Kingdom ministers are reportedly lobbying for the same. Neither…
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