Alexandra Geese
German Green MEP who put on the public record the connection between US trade pressure (DSA, trade framework) and the CAIDA delay.
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European Tech Sovereignty- Who is Alexandra Geese and what does she do in the EU Parliament?
- Alexandra Geese is a German Green MEP in the European Parliament focusing on digital regulation and tech sovereignty. She has been outspoken on the Digital Services Act and the CAIDA cloud sovereignty law.Source: event
- What did Alexandra Geese say about the EU cloud sovereignty law delay?
- Geese stated publicly that the CAIDA delay is connected to sustained US pressure on the EU via the trade framework, noting that while digital rules were kept out of the August 2025 EU-US trade deal, Washington has continued pressing on the Digital Services Act as a bargaining lever.Source: Politico
- Why does the EU-US trade framework affect the CAIDA cloud law?
- The EU excluded digital regulation from the August 2025 EU-US trade framework, but the US continued pressing on the Digital Services Act and CAIDA anyway, using threatened automotive and luxury tariffs worth up to $200bn as leverage, particularly over Germany.Source: event
Background
Alexandra Geese is a German member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA group, serving on committees covering the digital single market and technology regulation. She has been a consistent voice on digital-rights and sovereignty questions, including the Digital Services Act's platform accountability provisions and the Commission's tech sovereignty legislative agenda.
On the third CAIDA adoption slip in May 2026, Geese put on the public record what others in the Parliament had been saying privately: the EU deliberately kept digital rules out of the August 2025 EU-US trade framework, but Washington has continued pressing on the Digital Services Act ever since, and that sustained pressure is directly connected to the CAIDA delay. Her statement was notable because it named the mechanism -- the trade-framework link -- rather than treating the slip as a scheduling problem.
Geese occupies the Left-sovereignty position on the spectrum of MEP reactions to the CAIDA delays: she favours the protectionist legislative line and resists conflating it with trade negotiations. Her public framing of the DSA-trade linkage helps define the political stakes for the Commission if it continues to be seen as retreating under US pressure -- particularly given the Greens are a legislative partner the Commission needs on the broader AI-governance agenda.
