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Essays on trusted AI and sovereign resilience.

Field notes from the practice. Each essay is signed, dated, and written for the institutions that cannot afford to be wrong.

16 October 2026 · 14 min read

NIS2 compliance: what the directive requires and how institutions get there

Who is in scope, the ten minimum security measures, the 24-hour reporting clock, personal liability for management, and the order in which to do the work.

16 October 2026 · 11 min read

What is digital sovereignty? A working definition for European institutions

Not a flag on a cloud contract. A testable definition: the demonstrated ability to keep operating, under your own law, when any single dependency is removed.

16 October 2026 · 12 min read

The EU AI Act compliance checklist for deployers

Most organisations are deployers, not providers. The fourteen checks that apply to them, in date order, with the article behind each one.

16 October 2026 · 24 min read

The EU AI Act explained: what applies now, what moved, and what European institutions must do next

Every deadline after the Digital Omnibus, every role, every authority in Germany and Greece, and the sovereignty question the Act leaves open.

08 September 2026 · 18 min read

Building an AI governance framework a European institution can defend

Most AI governance frameworks are written for an auditor and read by nobody. This one is built backwards from the question a board will actually ask.

19 August 2026 · 16 min read

Institutional AI strategy in Europe: from pilot theatre to operating posture

Pilots are cheap and prove nothing. A European institution's AI strategy is the set of commitments it can still honour when the vendor, the regulator or the politics change.

15 July 2026 · 19 min read

An EU AI Act compliance roadmap for high-risk deployments

Classification, gap assessment, documentation, conformity assessment, post-market monitoring — in the order that survives contact with an actual deployment.

06 May 2026 · 12 min read

Data residency vs data sovereignty: what European operators keep getting wrong

A regional cloud sticker is not sovereignty. The operational difference between residency, sovereignty and continuity — with three tests to apply on your next procurement.

12 April 2026 · 11 min read

Trusted AI for the public mission

Why institutional AI deployments fail at the boundary between model and mandate — and the framework that closes it.

04 March 2026 · 14 min read

Digital sovereignty as resilience, not protectionism

Sovereignty in critical infrastructure is a posture, not a vendor list. A field guide for European operators.

18 February 2026 · 17 min read

The EU AI Act and the operators of critical infrastructure

What Article 6 high-risk classification means in practice for energy, water, healthcare and financial market infrastructure.

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