I live and work in Germany and know many people across Europe. Admittedly more in Western Europe, and admittedly my bubble leans toward traditional industries.

I see a lot of talk about "sovereignty" and "European software". What I don’t see is action.

Does anyone working in Europe actually see signs that people are taking this seriously?

> What I don’t see is action.

Building serious products and services in this space is easily 5 year investment, by that time there will be a new US administration.

Hope is not a strategy, but it's certainly cheaper in the short run.

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But have you divested from US assets?

Maybe one should, considering we just deployed armed troops with live ammunition to scare of America.

I fear we don't know how close this was. Maybe, we'll know in 50 years.

Well, my company is! I just migrated this weekend our database from AWS RDS to a Hetzner VPS with Volumes. It's a small step, but it works for us and it is way cheaper!

Same. French here. I can't stand hearing these words anymore, when at the same time I read that the French intelligence services closed a 5-year deal with Palantir.