Digital sovereignty is one of the most talked-about topics in European tech policy right now and according to Alexei Balaganski, most of the conversation is going in completely the wrong direction. In this episode, Matthias sits down with Alexei to challenge the assumptions behind the sovereignty debate, redefine what the term actually means, and lay out what organizations should really be doing about it.

Key Topics:

✅ Why the "digital sovereignty" conversation has gone wrong — and what Alcatraz has to do with it
✅ The only correct definition of sovereignty: can you keep operating when a dependency disappears?
✅ Why sovereignty is just business continuity engineering — not a procurement decision
✅ How sovereign Europe really is today: the numbers are worse than you think
✅ Why "buy European" is a political preference, not a security strategy
✅ Decentralization, crypto agility, and distributed storage as practical sovereignty tools

🏛️ "Sovereignty is not about who you're buying from, it's about what happens when you can no longer buy from them." Alexei Balaganski on why the European sovereignty debate is asking the wrong question entirely.
🔐 "Nobody, not even the EU, should prescribe how to solve your sovereignty issues." A rare episode with almost no AI but possibly the most important conversation KuppingerCole Analysts has published this year.

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