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Sebastiano Toffaletti

@sebastianobxl.bsky.social
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Secretary General @ European DIGITAL SME Alliance - the voice of 45K indipendent small and mid sized tech companies across Europe. #EuroStack co-founder

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Democratic Tech Alliance @democratic.technology · 07/04/2026
Hello from the #DemocraticTechAlliance 💻 We’re a coalition bringing together policy-makers, civil society, and European business to imagine and create EU tech ecosystem that serves democratic values and the public interest.
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Tagesspiegel Background @tspbackground.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Die Fähigkeit Europas, die Kontrolle der angebotenen & genutzten digitalen Produkte & Infrastrukturen wiederzuerlangen, setzt voraus, dass die massive #Abhängigkeit von ausländischen Anbietern beendet wird, so @sebastianobxl.bsky.social, @kzenner.bsky.social & Francesco Bonfiglio 👉 is.gd/ZWE2g5
Titel des Standpunkts von Sebastiano Toffaletti (European DIGITAL SME Alliance), Kai Zenner (Berater beim Europaabgeordneten Axel Voss) und Francesco Bonfiglio (Dynamo): "Warum die europäische Souveränität auch vom Ausbau eigener digitaler Kompetenzen abhängt." aus dem aktuellen Briefing Digitalisierung & KI.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
US tech companies ultimately act as agents of the US government. Tech dependency is no longer an acceptable risk for the EU. As in the #Eurostack strategy, Europe urgently needs an autonomous tech stack for its sovereignty, security, and strategic interests www.binnenlandsbestuur.nl/digitaal/mic...
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Microsoft: ‘Geen diensten aan ICC-organisatie gestopt’
Het contact tussen Microsoft en het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) sinds februari heeft geleid tot het loskoppelen van de Britse hoofdaanklager Karim Khan van Microsoft-diensten. Dat bevestigt een woor...
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Are there EU solutions to replace foreign #digitaltools? @digitalsme.eu kicks off first webinar of « Tech Solutions Made in Europe » featuring @proton.me, @nextcloud.bsky.social & @whereby-api.bsky.social , moderated by #EuroStack initiator @robin.berjon.com www.digitalsme.eu/events/tech-...
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Tech solutions made in Europe: Building a sovereign digital workplace
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
These fines signal the EC is willing to enforce EU laws despite US pressure. But are they enough? They fall far short of the 10% annual turnover mark & come over a year after the law took effect. For BigTech, this is just a small cost of doing highly profitable business in the EU shorturl.at/mg58S
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EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules
The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My interview on #Euractiv. I talk about #techsovereignity, #SME power and #EuroStack www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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Unlocking EU tech sovereignty through SME power, EuroStack, and new finance - Euractiv
Empowering Europe’s tech SMEs is essential for digital sovereignty. Nicole Verbeeck talks EuroStacks with Sebastiano Toffaletti, Secretary-General of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance.
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Marco Incerti @marcoinbxl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The new German coalition's stance on #tech seems very much in line with the @ec.europa.eu s #AI Continent Action Plan presented yesterday. Plus #Eurostack! h/t @guybanim.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com
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Mark Boyd @markboyd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“Europe can gain control of the critical infrastructures that underpin digital ecosystems by creating market demand for EU sovereign services and by supporting the federation of our SMEs around open APIs and interoperability standards.” @sebastianobxl.bsky.social in www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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Unlocking EU tech sovereignty through SME power, EuroStack, and new finance - Euractiv
Empowering Europe’s tech SMEs is essential for digital sovereignty. Nicole Verbeeck talks EuroStacks with Sebastiano Toffaletti, Secretary-General of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance.
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AmPhoenixTrade @amphoenixtrade.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I did a new blogpost about the growing Buy European movement. In response to questions from non-trade people interested in the issue, I’ve described how to think through litigation risk at the World Trade Organization. americanphoenixpllc.com/buy-european... A short thread:
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Buy European, Buy Democracy | American Phoenix
In the wake of the realization that Europe must now provide its own security, the EU is launching a Buy European regime to support the effort. For those familiar with EU trade policy, the public discu...
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Excellent job by MEP @alexandrageese.bsky.social in the EU Parliament. She is an outstanding advocate of the #EuroStack movement. Tech #sovereignty and #competitiveness are two sides of the same coin. One reinforces the other! Read more www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Do we want Meta and X to stop manipulating voters in Europe? Here is how they would take the DSA seriously. Let’s amend the law.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We gathered nearly 100 CEOs in a letter to the Commssion calling for bold action on the #EuroStack initiative www.digitalsme.eu/european-ind...
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European industry demands Eurostack to power EU competitiveness
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Pieter Haeck @pieterhaeck.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Up to 100 European companies and lobby groups including heavyweights Airbus and Dassault are pressing the European Commission to force more home-made technology into the bloc's digital infrastructure. First in Morning Tech, now free to read: www.politico.eu/article/airb...
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Defense giants want von der Leyen to boost made-in-Europe tech
European industrial and tech firms want the EU’s backing to reduce reliance on the U.S.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Was quoted in an insightful article by #Euractiv on lobbying surrounding the implementation of #AIAct. #BigTech are pushing to "transfer obligations down the supply chain" to #SMEs and #startups and "avoid passing on information about the AI model they design". www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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Latest GPAI Code of Practice draft kicks off lobbying fight - Euractiv
The Code can't be killed, but could reinforce AI Act obligations or offer a way around them.
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Pieter Haeck @pieterhaeck.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The European Union is under pressure to step up its tech game and wean itself off a heavy reliance on United States digital infrastructure and services as transatlantic ties hit a new low. My latest for POLITICO: www.politico.eu/article/push...
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EU-US rift triggers call for made-in-Europe tech
Transatlantic tensions are fueling calls for the EU to wean itself off its U.S. tech addiction. It won’t be cheap.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Great exchange on #EuroStack at the #MWC in Barcelona with #DimitrisPapastergiou, the Greek minister of digital transformation
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
My opinion proposing convergence in tech policies between the #EU and #India. Both are pursuing their own #techsovereignty. #IndiaStack is a successful initiative with adoption among 1,2 billion people. Europe should learn from it and have our own #eurostack! www.digitalsme.eu/eu-india-tra...
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EU-India Trade and Technology Council: A chance to join forces for a “Euro-India Stack”
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 31/01/2025
See euro-stack.eu/a-pitch-paper/ for an overall strategy. It's a lot to cover, but we can break it down into manageable chunks and prioritise. Every step away from the tech broligarchy is a step towards freedom.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 31/01/2025
Good times were had at the Brux Conference yesterday 🤭 Indeed, I've been hearing talk of tech sovereignty for years but with very little in terms of concrete actions to match. Captured infrastructure is as incompatible with democracy as it is with an open market — it's high time for change.
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
FROM SOVEREIGN TALK TO SOVEREIGN TECH: “Infrastructure is power,” Robin Berjon, one of the people behind the Eurostack initiative, told the Brux Conference — aka antitrust economist Cristina Caffarra’s conference — on Thursday, lamenting over the fact that “sovereign talk” has long been overshadowing “sovereign tech.”

“When you control the infrastructure, you control the future,” which is not a matter that regulation can solve, Berjon said. He lashed out at a recent study by the Chamber of Progress (a group with U.S. Big T ech members such as Meta, Google and Apple) which put a €5 trillion price tag on a potential Eurostack. “It’s nonsense,” he argued, stressing
that Europe has many “pieces of the puzzle” already and this is just about bringing them together.

Europe’s poor decision-making: For the founder of German AI lab Aleph Alpha, Jonas Andrulis, Europe has been making bad choices.
“We make decisions while ignoring strategic externalities,” he said, meaning “we are choosing the short-term cheapest options” which allows tech giants to have a foot in the door, own the data, and drive
innovation until they can leverage their monopoly to sideline promising rivals. “The only path towards sovereignty is value creation, ” Andrulis claimed.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
How can Europe regain its #sovereignty and #competitiveness? Here is a pitch on #eurostack: Europe’s best chance to build its own technology. I contributed to this paper with @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com, V. Bertola, F. Bonfiglio and K. Zenner. euro-stack.eu/a-pitch-paper/
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What to expect from the year 2025? Early signs are alarming. ⛔️#ElonMusk mingling with elections in UK & Germany. ⛔️#Zuckerberg cancelling content moderation opening up all sorts of misuse of social media. #Techbillionaires are the new world overlords. Where is Europe’s political leadership?
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Are you looking for a #job with a #purpose in 2025? ✅ The European DIGITAL SME Alliance stands for a different technology ecosystem, where companies win not because they are dominant, but because their technologies suit the #people and the #planet. Check out www.digitalsme.eu/about/vacanc...
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Great coverage by @euractiv.com of the 2024 #DSMEsummit. The digital SMEs community at the centre of EU #techsovereignity. Europe needs to reclaim its #eurostack! www.euractiv.com/section/digi...
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Europe can have its own Silicon Valley, with digital SMEs at its heart
Henna Virkkunen, EU Commission Executive Vice-President, has announced the investment of €750 million in seven supercomputers to propel the AI capacity of European industry.
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
My op-ed on Euractiv: It is time for Europe to be serious about #techsovereignty. At stake: Our freedom, democracy & competitiveness. The EU does not need more regulation, but an ambitious industrial strategy. Gov & industry must work together to deliver #Eurostack www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
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DIGITAL SME summit
Brussels biggest event for ICT SMEs. The time for a fairer, more open and inclusive digital society has finally come. Break the digital with us!
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Cristina Caffarra @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The “sovereign digital infrastructure” narrative is being appropriated by hyperscalers building giant datacentres all over, which they hilariously then call “sovereign” because they’re “here”. Governments kiss the ring because of AI FOMO. Some thoughts here cristinacaffarra.blog/2024/12/01/t...
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The “Sovereign Democratic Infrastructure”-Hyperscalers Trick. Why We Shouldn’t Fall for It, and What We Should Do Instead
Now that the election of President Trump in the US is perceived to have lowered “danger levels” to Usual Suspects digital platforms, at least at home (whether this will be really true is another ma…
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The annual DIGITAL SME Summit is coming up. Discover the power of indipendent tech #SMEs and #startups to deliver a different technology: #open, #humancentric, #sustainable and #sovereign. Join us on 10 December in Brussels! 🇪🇺 #DSMEsummit summit.digitalsme.eu
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DIGITAL SME summit
Brussels biggest event for ICT SMEs. The time for a fairer, more open and inclusive digital society has finally come. Break the digital with us!
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A detailed analysis by @corporateeurope.bsky.social @lobbycontrol.bsky.social and #Somo uncovering Big Tech's hidden network of undisclosed affiliations to distort the #DMA enforcement by the Commission #bigtech #astroturfing corporateeurope.org/en/2024/10/u...
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Sebastiano Toffaletti @sebastianobxl.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
As @johnnyryan.bsky.social et al argue on @konradadenauer.bsky.social the EU Commission should offer opportunities to innovative #SMEs & #startups by enforcing its #GDPR vs US/Chinese #techgiants. It is time to focus on enforcement to deliver #competitiveness www.kas.de/documents/25...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 23/09/2024
The explosion in digital infrastructure may be the biggest but least recognised shock delivered by the internet. We need to develop the governance capacity to manage that infrastructure in democratic ways. berjon.com/infrastructu...
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The Infrastructure Shock
The explosion of digital infrastructure systems over the past thirty years may be the biggest but least recognised shock delivered by the internet. We need to develop the governance capacity to manage...
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