Europe is losing its grip on the future — or more precisely, on the means of the future. Caught between competing scenarios of global transformation driven by the United States and China, it has so far failed to develop a bold, radical strategy for its own technological and digital development.

In this essay, Francesca Bria calls for an ambitious, integrated strategy to build Europe's digital infrastructure: the industrial, communications, and resource backbone without which sovereignty remains an empty word. From securing critical materials to retaining top scientists, from chip fabrication to energy supply, Europe will have no say in the future unless it reclaims sovereignty over what has become our dominant ecology of thought and action: the Stack.