Bundesbank paper proposes 37 digital sovereignty measures

The Deutsche Bundesbank, together with the Federal Office for Information Security and Hesse’s digital minister, has published a paper proposing 37 implementation-oriented measures to strengthen digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe.

• The paper focuses on five technology fields: chips, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and quantum computing; it calls for an EU program for chip production, framework contracts for 3 to 5 European cloud providers, and a politically supported consortium of 2 to 4 companies to build a second frontier large language model for Germany and Europe.
• It also recommends measures to improve venture capital for scale-up and exit, create a legal basis for EU-native procurement, and launch a nationwide AI skills campaign; the authors say the paper is intended as a platform for coordinating stakeholders.
  This is a first-time announcement of a policy paper and its recommendations, not a report on a completed deal.