Key take-aways:
Undersea internet cables are as important as gas and oil pipelines – like the Nord Stream 2 project – and are a focus of growing geopolitical rivalry between the US and China throughout the EU’s wider neighbourhood.
China and the US have different approaches but are racing ahead of the EU in terms of their influence over internet infrastructure and the states that depend on it.
The EU has the ambition and potential to become digitally sovereign, but it lacks an all-encompassing strategy for the sector, in which individual governments are still the key players.
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