The many Europe related subreddits have been going on about disentangling our over reliance on US products, tech, security guarantees, etc. The Greenland issue has brought more attention and focus and perhaps even some resolve to get something done. I know the French have always been a bit more circumspect when it comes to relying on the US or anyone for that matter, so it isn’t surprising to hear them ditching Zoom and MS teams. But what about the other countries in the EU? There’s a fair amount of talk but how many are walking the walk? Do you know of more EU countries investing in their own digital/economic infrastructure in a bid to walk away from US? Especially in light of the big companies laying off European staff (Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet(?) etc), are the countries of the EU seizing this opportunity to get their own sectors up and running and capitalising on the skilled labour that have suddenly been made free?


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