The Left in the European Parliament | October 2025
The EU-Singapore digital trade agreement: gambling away our digital sovereignty
by Javier Ruiz Diaz
The EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement (EUSDTA),
concluded on 25 July 2024, complements the existing
EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. It governs
digital trade in goods and services, covering software,
digital media, e-commerce, hardware and a broad
range of digital services. While it is promoted as a
way to align with the EU’s digital trade objectives
and boost digital commerce, significant concerns
about its potentially negative impacts on EU policy
space, digital regulation, data protection, workers’
rights, digital industrialisation efforts and taxation
remain unaddressed.
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