Digital signature algorithms within the European Union I've just noticed that US NIST has accepted DSA as a digital signature standard. Does the European Union have a similar standard, specifying an algorithm to use when digitally signing messages?

I have been looking this up for some time now, but I fail to find a reasonable answer.
Except if you are picky with updates of references, there is such standard. DSA, RSA, ECDSA-$F_p$, ECDSA-$F_{2^n}$, are approved by ETSI&nbsp;TS&nbsp;102&nbsp;176-1 V2.1.1 (2011-07) (Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Algorithms and Parameters for Secure Electronic Signatures; Part 1: Hash functions and asymmetric algorithms), which essentially is an update of ETSI&nbsp;SR&nbsp;002&nbsp;176 V1.1.1 (2003-03) (Algorithms and Parameters for Secure Electronic Signatures), which is referenced by CWA&nbsp;14169:2004 (Secure signature-creation devices “EAL 4+”), which (in an earlier edition that it supersedes) is referenced by Commission decision 2003/511/EC (on the publication of reference numbers of generally recognised standards for electronic signature products in accordance with Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council).

However, updates of both CWA&nbsp;14169 and ETSI&nbsp;SR&nbsp;002&nbsp;176 have broken the formal chain of approval, with no official repairs that I am aware of. The state of things is that Member States have their own rules, AFAIK. For France, that is currently RGS 2.0 and its annex B.1 (both in french).