Ministers of digitalisation from across the Nordic and Baltic countries gathered in Copenhagen on November 6, 2026, to endorse a comprehensive joint declaration aimed at strengthening the region’s digital sovereignty toward 2030. The countries include Estonia, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Åland. While celebrating their position as global frontrunners in digital adoption and innovation, the ministers warned that both their region and Europe as a whole have developed an unsustainable reliance on a narrow group of dominant external technology providers.
To address these vulnerabilities, the declaration establishes a coordinated roadmap to boost regional resilience and self-reliance while maintaining open, competitive markets. Future funding will increasingly prioritize joint projects with tangible regional impact, focusing heavily on common procurement for cloud connectivity, the physical and cybersecurity of subsea communication cables, and foundational digital infrastructure. In the discussions, the officials formally endorsed the European Commission’s Tech Sovereignty package. Moving forward, the coalition aims to cut unnecessary administrative burdens for companies, protect critical supply chains from external shocks, and build on successful cross-border initiatives such as the Nordic-Baltic eID project to become the world’s most digitally integrated region by the end of the decade.
