Analysis
EU digital sovereignty trends, regulatory changes, and email infrastructure analysis.
The European tech stack in 2026
For most B2B software and digital businesses, mature European options now exist at every layer, from hosting to payments to monitoring. This is the stack EmailConnect runs on, and where I chose to compromise.
8 min readNIS2 and email infrastructure
The NIS2 Directive expands EU cybersecurity requirements to many more businesses. What it means for how you handle email, and what to ask of your email vendors.
8 min read2025: The sovereign cloud reality check
In 2025 Microsoft told French senators it cannot guarantee that EU customer data stays out of reach of US authorities. An EU data centre run by a US company does not take your data out of US jurisdiction; who owns the provider does.
6 min readStackCheck: Data sovereignty scanner
StackCheck scans a website's DNS, hosting and embedded scripts, then those of every service it finds, to show where its data actually flows and under which jurisdiction.
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