Policy papers

EUCLORA publishes policy papers that set out its positions on key questions in European cloud infrastructure.

They are intended as durable reference documents for policymakers, researchers, and infrastructure operators.

EUCLORA Policy Brief v2.0

A policymaker roadmap for cloud efficiency and sovereignty

Policy brief 3 pages 6 min
Published on 5 January 2026 | v2.0

A policymaker-facing brief on why Europe must treat cloud efficiency as a sovereignty prerequisite – and what to do next: align programmes, procurement, and funding around a shared operational cloud fabric, stewarded as open software through InnoFabric.

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Beyond Latency – and Federation

An evidence-backed position for operators and researchers

Policy – position paper 55 pages 110 min
Published on 5 January 2026 | v2.0

A detailed policy position showing why federation alone cannot close Europe’s cloud efficiency gap. It introduces pooling as the missing complement: shared operational cloud fabric software (substrate + control), common metrics, and reference implementations via InnoFabric so improvements propagate and compound across providers.

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