All the ways Europe is abandoning American technology

Europe is over With large American technology companies. Well, sort of. Since the start of President Donald Trump’s chaotic second administration last year, concerned governments and companies across the continent have accelerated plans to end their almost complete dependence on technology from American companies.

Along with political statements, homegrown European technology development, and millions in additional funding, WIRED’s analysis documented dozens of public cases of companies, governments, NGOs, and educational institutions turning away from U.S. technology companies in favor of open source or homegrown alternatives. It is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

“The Trump administration’s aggressive policies, which attack international law, as well as the European Union and democratic principles, have led to many wake-up calls,” says Mariete Schacki, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Cyber ​​Policy at Stanford University and a former member of the European Parliament.

The movements are widespread and growing. Last week, the European Commission launched its official long-term plans to reduce dependence on American technology. The European Parliament has switched the default search engine on its devices from Google to the French alternative Quant. Its open source office software, called LaSuite, is used by thousands of French government workers, as officials aim to “break free” from dependence on US technology companies. An open source document provided by more than a dozen European technology companies, called Euro-Office, is set to be released soon. Cities across the Netherlands, France and Germany are moving away from Microsoft Office and Google Docs

It’s not just productivity software either. The Dutch government is moving its code away from Microsoft-owned Github and into its own repository. In a series of decisions, Finland has reportedly decided not to move its election data to Amazon’s cloud services, while the organization behind the .be top-level domain in Belgium said it would move away from AWS. Meanwhile, Eurosky was developed as an interoperable alternative to Bluesky on the AT protocol that underpins both social networks.

WIRED magazine collected publicly known examples of European entities divesting from major U.S.-based technology companies. (Click the arrows to scroll the timeline of instances below, or view them in this Google Sheet or Proton Sheet.)