Digital Sovereignty and the Green Transition: EU Challenges in Times of War and Energy Crisis

This book is the first investigation of the relationship between EU digital sovereignty and sustainability strategies. It maps the ambitions and limitations of EU digital strategic autonomy and explores the structural challenges underlying its relationship with its green transition objectives in the context of the ongoing wars in neighbouring European countries and the consequent tensions in the EU energy sector. The EU is racing to achieve technological independence from third countries and foreign multinational companies to protect its digital sovereignty and preserve its fundamental rights.In the EU, digitalisation and the green transformation are seen as twin transitions.Yet, EU digital sovereignty strategies have a significant environmental cost.Reaching a status of strategic autonomy of the EU at the level of digital infrastructures, products, services and data implies higher energy consumption and exploitation of natural resources.Moreover, the geopolitical tensions following th