Kukies justified Germany’s position for not taxing digital services by saying that the EU had not alternatives to US data centres, cloud, and artificial intelligence services.

I think Germany is a great source of experience in how dropping these Big Tech companies would impact everything. It’s not weird for them to be against it because it makes it so European countries and Germany have more time to make the needed changes in tech infrastructure so they can do it themselves too.

Europeans are slow and steady. Minds are most likely already set on dropping US reliance. It just doesn’t need to be pushed right away.