The Digital
Colonization
Counter
Over 1,000 Billion Euros Stolen Annually.
Total Euros transferred from European citizens and businesses to US tech giants.
Days of unpaid work offered to Big Tech annually by every European.
Equivalent to: ~3 weeks of full-time labor per person.
Total Euros lost annually from the European economy.
Daily (2.85 Bn€): Funds 2,500 hospital beds every single day. Equivalent to the entire French Defense budget every 45 days.
Yearly (1,042 Bn€): Equals 4x the German Federal Budget for Education & Research. Enough to build 50 high-speed rail lines annually.
01. The Extraction Flow
Lost Freedoms.
Europe is colonized in key industrial sectors, stripping Europeans of fundamental rights: freedom of expression, data privacy, and economic sovereignty. We do not own our data. We do not own our infrastructure. We are tenants in our own digital home.
02. Sovereignty & Colonization Rates
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