EU lawmakers push to reduce Europe's dependence on foreign cloud providers

A joint draft report on the European Commission's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) was presented at the European Parliament on Wednesday, calling for common EU rules on cloud and AI infrastructure, greater support for European technology companies and reduced dependence on foreign providers.The proposal aims to strengthen Europe's digital infrastructure and international competitiveness amid concerns that reliance on foreign technology providers could undermine the bloc's control over critical services."This is not only a matter of economic competitiveness, it is also a matter of our capacity to make our own decisions," Spanish conservative MEP Diego Solier said during a press conference on Wednesday."Technological sovereignty does not consist in closing Europe to the rest of the world, it consists of ensuring that Europe has the capacity to act, compete and choose."The proposal comes as the EU is making significant efforts to reduce its reliance on other countries for critical services, infrastructure, materials and security, with a slew of proposals currently in the works.European leaders have been worried since Donald Trump returned to office, making the US an unreliable partner and exposing how reliant the bloc is American goods and services, especially big tech.In June this year, Trump ordered Anthropic to block access to its widely used Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models from outside the US, citing security…