Responding to a Financial Times report on France’s move from Zoom and Microsoft Teams to the domestic Visio platform, Daniel Castro argues that Europe’s push for “digital sovereignty” risks undermining transatlantic integration rather than enhancing security, since Visio remains tied to U.S. operations and the underlying legal tensions persist. He notes true resilience comes from shared markets, interoperable systems, and common rules among allies, and treating sovereignty as exclusion of trusted partners fragments the Western digital ecosystem while inadvertently benefiting China.
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