At its core, the Digital Networks Act asks a deceptively simple question: can we build networks that are at once more integrated, more resilient and more inclusive? From 27 markets to one connectivity spaceThe first ambition of the Digital Networks Act is to overcome a structural weakness that has haunted Europe for years: fragmentation. One of the most sensitive choices in the Digital Networks Act is invisible to most end users: how governance will be organised. A purely intergovernmental model that relies on loose coordination, on the other hand, would perpetuate the very fragmentation the Digital Networks Act aims to overcome. Connectivity as a social and territorial pactThe Digital Networks Act also reopens a fundamental debate about the social meaning of connectivity.