In Search of Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy: Normative Power Europe to the Test of Its Geopolitical Ambitions

This article analyses the recent use of European Union (EU) terminology digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy, aiming to identify tensions between policy considerations fundamental rights, free market principles geopolitical concerns. These are rooted in disparity EU's considerable economic regulatory power matters its limited mandate capabilities foreign policy. The also explores translation notions autonomy into EU It identifies three important trends geopoliticisation agenda on technologies: (1) instrumental ‘classic’ internal policies exert influence; (2) imposition imperatives national markets; (3) new ‘hybrid’ that combine concerns, rights Ultimately, has inherent with normative issues may result a cacophony.