Global Inequality and the EU International Law Position on Cross-Border Data Flows

Abstract Relevant data resources are critical for ai -supported decision-making. Thus, control over data, and how that moves across borders, has become a key point of international dispute. This article analyses the EU’s legal positionings regarding cross-border flows in context an increasingly fierce global battle resources. It also asks whether EU approach to government, which is reflected its positionings, can contribute address pressing problem unequal distribution gains driven economy among states. The argues government ridden with contradictions centrepiece, protection framework, best understood as non-performative. non-performativity, together determination climb up ladders digital value chains, makes position on ambiguous downgrades punch negotiations.