Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Push Moves Off Big Tech

France is leading Europe’s push to reduce reliance on US tech by replacing Zoom and Microsoft Teams with homegrown and open‑source tools, storing data locally under ANSSI oversight, and rolling out Visio to about 40,000 civil servants; Lyon and other cities are shifting to Open Source Office suites like OnlyOffice and trialing Linux, while health data moves to local cloud provider Scaleway. The broader EU trend, supported by a handful of governments partnering on sovereign tech, aims to cut dependence on US firms despite ongoing dominance of Google, Microsoft, and Amazon in the market. Open‑source projects such as Nextcloud and BlockNote are expanding as part of this strategy, though complete decoupling remains unlikely.