sovereignty

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He champions a cause popular with European regulators: tech sovereignty, or reducing reliance on American and Chinese tech.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

"We are not going to block it, but we do have to demand, as always, sovereignty and standards, in tax terms and in development terms, so that it benefits the population."

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

She has decried revelations of the recent participation of CIA officials in a raid on a drug lab in northern Chihuahua state, saying it was a breach of sovereignty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, outlined a so-called tech sovereignty package, with policies targeting a broad range of tech infrastructure, from semiconductors to cloud services, data centers and artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Because of the Treaty of Paris, Washington believed the US had sovereignty over the Ohio Country, a belief that was not shared by the people of the Indigenous nations who lived there.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz