35 stories tagged digital-sovereignty, newest first.
168 points by lowkeyokay | 156 comments
Computerworld Denmark article reporting that the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation quietly ended its pilot testing Collabora as an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.
80 points by doener | 53 comments
A directory on buy-european.net listing non-European products and services, such as 1Password, Amazon, and Apple, with links to European alternatives for each.
313 points by mywacaday | 282 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on the Netherlands developing a NixOS-based software ecosystem to replace Microsoft after US sanctions on the ICC, with a first release expected end of 2027.
875 points by fjfaase | 518 comments
Homepage of DAWO, an open community of government, industry and society building a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
451 points by roundabout-host | 307 comments
GitHub discussion on the EU age verification app spec urging removal of its dependency on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation.
530 points by vrganj | 209 comments
Politico Europe news article reporting that the Netherlands blocked a US company's takeover of a vital Dutch digital supplier.
553 points by jorijn | 289 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author moved code from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, citing ownership concerns and the Dutch government's similar move.
908 points by monokai_nl | 540 comments
A personal blog post by Monokai's creator describing how he moved his digital services and cloud stack to European providers for digital sovereignty.
357 points by pabs3 | 197 comments
XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.
340 points by Teever | 151 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that the French government plans to replace Windows with Linux to reduce dependence on US technology.
746 points by embedding-shape | 358 comments
French government press release on accelerating digital sovereignty and reducing dependence on non-European tech, following an interministerial seminar.
321 points by madman_dev | 134 comments
OnlyEU is a curated directory of European software, products and services offered as alternatives to US apps like Google, Apple and Dropbox.
836 points by exitnode | 640 comments
A personal blog post describing the author's move of services and subscriptions from non-EU providers to European ones for political and data protection reasons.
800 points by robtherobber | 390 comments
The Record news article reporting that Denmark's digital agency plans to move away from Microsoft software in pursuit of digital independence.
631 points by willy__ | 321 comments
A blog post by a founder describing building a startup entirely on European infrastructure, the stack chosen, the difficulties, and unavoidable non-EU dependencies.
680 points by nar001 | 293 comments
GitHub organization page for La Suite numérique, the French government's set of open-source applications for digital collaboration and teamwork.
1073 points by AareyBaba | 541 comments
AP News article on France replacing Zoom and Microsoft Teams in government as Europe pushes for digital autonomy from US tech companies.
675 points by jamesblonde | 594 comments
The Register opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols arguing European companies should move workloads from US cloud providers to EU-native clouds.
794 points by bwb | 689 comments
An X (Twitter) post about France planning to replace US videoconferencing tools like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams; the content did not load.
615 points by s_dev | 348 comments
European Alternatives is a directory site helping users find European alternatives to digital services and products such as cloud services and SaaS.
366 points by pabs3 | 285 comments
LWN brief reporting that the European Commission opened a call for evidence on open source to shape its European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy, with feedback due February 3, 2026.
457 points by EvanAnderson | 310 comments
Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic blog edition titled "The Post-American Internet," apparently based on his 39C3 talk.
557 points by doener | 258 comments
Heise news article reporting that Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating its administration from Microsoft to open source software.
334 points by i-con | 380 comments
Heise article on how ICC judge Nicolas Guillou, sanctioned by the US, finds the effects mainly in losing access to digital services.
570 points by vincvinc | 182 comments
Dutch news article reporting that the International Criminal Court is replacing Microsoft 365 with openDesk, a European open-source office suite.
405 points by buyucu | 93 comments
It's FOSS News article reporting that Austria's BMWET ministry migrated 1,200 employees from Microsoft to a sovereign Nextcloud setup in four months.
327 points by sebastian_z | 104 comments
It's FOSS News article reporting that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has completed migrating its email systems from Microsoft to open source solutions.
464 points by blinding-streak | 306 comments
New York Times article on Microsoft suspending the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor amid US sanctions; the capture shows a captcha page.
334 points by jlpcsl | 159 comments
Heise news article reporting that the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is replacing Microsoft Windows and Office with Linux and LibreOffice for all employees.
374 points by themeaningist | 306 comments
Plausible Analytics blog post analyzing traffic trends on the European Alternatives website, which lists EU-based alternatives to tech services.
442 points by MartijnHols | 245 comments
Blog post by Martijn Hols on why and how he is moving away from US cloud services, citing EU privacy law conflicts with US surveillance laws.
491 points by amarcheschi | 166 comments
Ecosia blog post announcing a partnership with Qwant to build an independent European web search index.
1108 points by Sami_Lehtinen | 616 comments
Blog post by Bert Hubert arguing European governments and societies should stop moving their operations to American cloud providers due to US political risk.
353 points by CrankyBear | 246 comments
ZDNet article reporting that a German state is replacing Microsoft Windows and Office with Linux and LibreOffice across its government systems.
421 points by buovjaga | 261 comments
Document Foundation blog post announcing that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is migrating 30,000 government PCs to LibreOffice.