Europe’s drive for digital sovereignty is reshaping how public agencies and regulated organizations choose, host, and govern open source platforms—from Drupal to Nextcloud.
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Digital sovereignty is driving European governments off US clouds and onto homegrown open source options.
The app is easy to replace. The hard part is the years of documents trapped in one company’s format -- especially after that company ceases to exist.
An open letter from the Document Foundation argues that Euro-Office isn’t what it claims—and may reinforce Microsoft’s ecosystem instead.
Backed by major European vendors, Euro‑Office takes on Microsoft, Google Docs, and OnlyOffice — and we have screenshots to show how the new sovereign suite is shaping up.
With a new digital sovereignty assessment and an open framework, Red Hat is courting Europe’s policymakers and CIOs -- but homegrown EU rivals and U.S. politics make it an uphill climb.
As US legal reach over cloud data keeps spooking EU regulators and customers, SUSE is betting that pairing its software with up‑and‑coming European providers like Evroc will give it an edge over US‑based rivals.
As Europe talks up “EuroLinux” and digital sovereignty, Turkey’s Pardus has already spent two decades quietly running in its public sector.
Red Hat follows SUSE’s lead with an EU support pledge -- raising the stakes in the race for European digital sovereignty.
The Austrian Ministry for Economic Affairs drops foreign clouds for a homegrown Nextcloud and LibreOffice solution, illustrating Europe’s steady move toward digital independence.