digital sovereignty

France has announced it will replace a patchwork of U.S. video-conferencing tools used across the public sector with a domestically developed platform called Visio, and has set a target to generalize the service across all state services by 2027. Background / Overview The decision, announced...

Schleswig-Holstein has quietly pulled off one of the most significant public-sector IT pivots in Europe in recent years: a planned, state-wide shift away from a proprietary, Microsoft-centric desktop toward an open-source ecosystem that now powers the majority of administrative workstations...

Bojidar Bojanov’s public warning that the Bulgarian Council of Ministers is about to authorise a central procurement for Microsoft products is more than a procurement squabble — it’s a live debate about digital sovereignty, vendor lock‑in, and the practical limits of cloud dependency for a...

Bozhidar Bozhanov, a senior opposition figure and former minister for electronic governance, has publicly warned that a recent Council of Ministers decision to authorise a central public procurement for Microsoft products could lock Bulgaria’s state administration into long‑term technical...

Bojidar Bozhanov has raised a red flag: the Bulgarian government is preparing to open a public procurement and sign a new, large-scale contracting arrangement with Microsoft to cover core software and cloud services for the state administration — a move he says carries long-term risks for...

The Open Rights Group’s intervention ahead of the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill’s second reading frames a blunt question for Westminster: can the UK afford to let its critical digital infrastructure remain overwhelmingly dependent on US hyperscalers and proprietary vendors, or does that...

Big Tech’s convenience promises have quietly become mechanisms of control, and 2025 is the year the trade‑off between ease and autonomy became impossible to ignore. What started as helpful defaults — automatic updates, cloud sync, integrated assistants — has hardened into a set of platform...

Airbus has quietly opened a door that could force Europe’s cloud market to stop being a niche political argument and start acting like industrial infrastructure: the company plans to tender a multi‑year contract next January to migrate mission‑critical workloads — including ERP, manufacturing...

Europe appears to be moving from rhetoric to action on digital sovereignty, driven by a legal fault line that makes continued reliance on US hyperscalers legally and operationally risky for public authorities. Recent high‑profile moves — from Austria’s Federal Ministry migrating 1,200 staff to...

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s decision to sue Microsoft over how it rolled Copilot into Microsoft 365 is more than a local regulatory tussle — it is a spotlight on how bundled software and platform lock‑in compress genuine consumer choice and why an increasingly credible...

Microsoft's Copilot experienced a region-wide disruption that left users across the United Kingdom and parts of Europe unable to access AI assistance, even as political developments in the South Caucasus have pushed Armenia and Azerbaijan closer to a negotiated peace — two separate stories that...

The quiet exodus away from Windows that accelerated through 2025 is no longer a fringe narrative: a combination of lifecycle deadlines, hardware gating, improved Linux usability, and geopolitical concerns has pushed everyday users — not only hobbyists — to seriously consider Linux as a practical...

The European Commission’s decision to probe the market power of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—and to weigh bringing cloud infrastructure within the scope of the Digital Markets Act—reflects a strategic shift: regulators now see cloud concentration as a systemic risk to...

The International Criminal Court’s decision to abandon Microsoft Office in favor of a European open-source stack has crystallized a wave of anxiety that has been building for years: control over data, workflows and digital sovereignty is slipping away from users and into the hands of platform...

Microsoft’s latest push into “sovereign cloud” capabilities tightens the company’s grip on regional data-residency and AI controls in Europe and Switzerland, promising expanded in‑country AI processing, new private‑cloud infrastructure options, and deeper operational guarantees aimed at...

The International Criminal Court has quietly begun replacing Microsoft Office with openDesk, a European open‑source office and collaboration stack, in a move that crystallises a broader political and technical push across Europe to reduce dependence on U.S. cloud and productivity vendors. The...

The cloud that underpins much of Europe’s digital economy hiccuped again this week: a configuration error in Microsoft’s Azure Front Door knocked large parts of Azure and Microsoft 365 offline on October 29, and — coming barely a week after a widespread AWS disruption — reignited a familiar...

Schleswig‑Holstein’s IT team has completed a large‑scale migration that severs a major public‑sector dependency on Microsoft: more than 40,000 mailboxes and well over 100 million email and calendar items were moved off Microsoft Exchange and the Outlook client onto an Open‑Xchange backend and...

India’s strategic moment for a homegrown “critical digital stack” is no longer academic—it is urgent, practical and already unfolding at pace across government, industry and the startup ecosystem. Recent calls from the Prime Minister and visible ministerial endorsements of Indian software...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...