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5 articles covering "digital-sovereignty"
The fifth annual State of Open Source in Europe report links sovereignty goals to upstream participation, and counts 48% of organizations running private forks that cost an average of 311 hours per release cycle.
The German state has moved 5,000 employees off Microsoft SharePoint onto a self-hosted Nextcloud platform, with a long-term goal of 50,000 users as part of a digital sovereignty push.
Brussels awarded a six-year framework contract for sovereign cloud services to Post Telecom, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus, using a new eight-criteria sovereignty framework that allows Google Cloud to participate only through the Proximus-led consortium.
A coalition of nine European companies forked OnlyOffice into Euro-Office, prompting an AGPL v3 licensing dispute and the suspension of an eight-year Nextcloud partnership.
Three major 2026 reports reveal Europe is accelerating open source adoption as a strategic tool for digital sovereignty, even as vulnerabilities double and Cyber Resilience Act deadlines loom.