According to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), digital sovereignty is "an issue of great relevance". Supply bottlenecks of computer chips have shown how quickly dependencies on non-European producers can slow down important economic sectors such as the car industry. The importance of digital sovereignty has thus reached companies.

Particularly in the areas of hardware and IT infrastructure, software and applications, as well as IT security, it is evident that the majority of companies take aspects of digital sovereignty into account when selecting components and applications. However, about one third of the companies are still heavily dependent on non-European providers.

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