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Europe Replaces Entire American Google Microsoft Software Stack

Europe’s software stack is no longer assumed to be American. This morning, the European Parliament replaced Google with Qwant and five days from now, Europe releases a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office.

🇪🇺 The European Parliament has made Qwant the default search engine across its internal systems.


🔎 Qwant is French, privacy-focused, and operates outside American legal jurisdiction.


🖥️ EuroOffice launches June 9 as a European open-source alternative to Microsoft 365.


☁️ The EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is creating the legal framework to move sensitive government data away from American cloud providers.


🇫🇷 France is migrating public institutions from Windows to Linux and replacing Teams, Zoom, and WebEx with sovereign alternatives.


🇳🇱 The Microsoft-Dutch civil servant leak showed exactly why European institutions are moving so quickly.


🌍 The deeper pattern is clear: Europe is rebuilding the digital tools of government from search to cloud to office software.

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