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"In Europe, discussions are coalescing around an ambitious idea called EuroStack, an EU-led “digital supply chain” that would give Europe technological sovereignty independent from the US and other countries.

The idea gathered steam a couple of months before Trump’s reelection, when a group of business leaders, European politicians, and technologists—including Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, and Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s former minister of digital affairs—met at the European Parliament to discuss “European Digital Independence.” According to Cristina Caffarra, an economist who helped organize the meeting, the takeaway was stark: “US tech giants own not only the services we engage with but also everything below, from chips to connectivity to cables under the sea to compute to cloud. If that infrastructure turns off, we have nowhere to go.”

The feeling of urgency has only grown since Trump retook office. The German and French governments have embraced EuroStack, while major EU aircraft manufacturers and military suppliers like Airbus and Dassault have signed on to a public letter advocating its approach to “sovereign digital infrastructure.” In all the European capitals, the Danish government adviser says, teams of people are calculating what elements should be folded into the effort and what it would cost.

And EuroStack is just one part of the response to enshittification. The European Union is also putting together a joint defense fund to help EU countries buy weapons—but not from the US. The EU’s executive agency, the European Commission, is patching together a network of satellites that could eventually provide Ukraine and Europe with their own home-baked alternative to Starlink."

wired.com/story/enshittificati

WIRED · The Enshittification of American PowerBy Henry Farrell
#USA#Trump#BigTech

The #US imposes 30% of #UStariffs to the #EuropeanUnion. According to Politico, the Commission is ready to retaliate. EU OS believes that a European response with Tariffs on US BigTech services (or all services that face trade deficits) would make so much more sense if the EU had alternatives for those in place. This is why #EU_OS, #EuroStack and #DigitalSovereignty is important. It offers more leverage.

politico.eu/article/donald-tru

#GermanStack #TradeWar #Trump @EC_NGI

More on the #EuroStack, from @robin "The urgent question is whether the bloc’s leaders will back these words up with deeds — and if they have the will to use medicine strong enough for what ails us."

politico.eu/article/digital-so

(imho most of the Big Tech villainy in the EU could be put an end to by enforcing existing laws and regs at reasonable speed.)

POLITICO · Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained awayBy Robin Berjon

Great blog about EuroStack, we need to BUILD !
"We need to think about this first and foremost as an industrial project. With some public support but one where “industry” (the supply side) needs to be given the incentive to build, and the opportunity to scale and expand. We don’t need more “events” and pensive stuff about “our European values” and “democracy” around digital sovereignty. Industry should do its thing, or nothing will happen. Wake up."
cristinacaffarra.blog/2025/06/
#EuroStack #EU

The “Post-Bubble” Blog · European Digital Sovereignty is an Industrial Project.  Everyone Else Get Out of the Way.It is oh-so-European that just when the imperative of getting more European assets to support our digital life is finally established (was staring at everyone in the face for some time, yes?), mult…

Must-read #Eurostack post from Cristina Caffarra: cristinacaffarra.blog/2025/06/ "We don’t need think tanks without experience of business who never studied an investment deck creating a dust storm with “we need to set up a big public fund! Hundreds of billions! to fund everything from Brussels!”

You don't need a big project to clone every capability of US-based hyperscale clouds to build a Eurostack that's better than the incumbents---if you make buy/build decisions based on actual IT customer needs.

The “Post-Bubble” Blog · European Digital Sovereignty is an Industrial Project.  Everyone Else Get Out of the Way.It is oh-so-European that just when the imperative of getting more European assets to support our digital life is finally established (was staring at everyone in the face for some time, yes?), mult…

Quote: "In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work. […] The current first phase involves ending the use of Word and Excel software […]. Over the next few years, there will also be a switch to the Linux operating system in order to complete the move away from Windows."

france24.com/en/live-news/2025

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FRANCE 24 · 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on MicrosoftBy France 24
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2/2 Only this week we learnt that a jury will rank the project and offer prices. Cross your fingers for us 🤞 or even better, join on Matrix at #eu-os:kde.org or for developers at #eu-os-dev:kde.org to offer your help for a competitive advantage! 😉

Also, the first ever merchandise arrived – here presented by "model" Robert. 😇