Overview

• EU leaders at the Berlin Summit agreed to coordinate investments in indigenous cloud and open-source infrastructure to break dependence on US and Chinese platforms
• Satya Nadella introduced Microsoft’s Sovereign Cloud suite, which includes External Key Management, Data Guardian, and Sovereign Private Cloud offerings for European organizations
• Usage of homegrown tech alternatives is rising, with search engine Ecosia up 27% year-on-year and email provider ProtonMail up 11.7% as users seek greater data protection
• Germany’s government has mandated open-source software for public sector IT and funded Ukraine’s internet access via Eutelsat instead of relying on Starlink
• Despite the momentum, US giants remain dominant—Google logged 10.3 billion EU visits in February—underscoring experts’ calls for regulatory measures to restore competition