Not only Zoom and Teams: France is standing up to U.S. digital dominance: “It feels kind of like there’s a real zeitgeist shift”

President Donald Trump’s shake-up of the world order, largely set up by the United States in the wake of World War II, is having several knock-on effects and unintconcludeed consequences around the globe.

His America First agconcludea, instead of drawing more investment in the U.S. and building the nation’s companies the center of world production, is building investors reconsider holding American assets and cautilizing fears about potential adverse consequences of American dominance in certain sectors.

Particularly Trump’s bullying of European allies over his desire to acquire Greenland, slapping tariffs on products from EU nations and sanctioning judges over their court room decisions that he doesn’t agree with, which have all set off alarm bells and caapplyd nations across the continent to take action to ensure their sovereignty.

One area where this new indepconcludeence drive may be felt most profoundly is in the U.S. tech sector as Europe is its largegest market after the US itself. Governments and institutions across Europe are seeing to ween themselves off digital services from large U.S. tech companies and switch over to free open source and homegrown systems reports Associated Press.

Nick Reiners, senior geotechnology analyst at the Eurasia Group, notified the AP that there is much more “political momentum behind this idea now that we required to de-risk from U.S. tech… It feels kind of like there’s a real zeitgeist shift.”

French President Macron has been pushing digital sovereignty for years, but there’s now a lot more political momentum behind de-risking from US tech.

“It feels kind of like there’s a real zeitgeist shift,” states our expert Nick Reiners.https://t.co/sf1Fk9uJ7y

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France will adopt “sovereign” digital office tool, ditching Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other US services

Last week, France announced that it will replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom in all government departments with Visio, its own domestically developed video conferencing platform, by the year 2027. This is part of a larger strategy to establish “digital sovereignty amid rising geopolitical tensions and fears of foreign surveillance or service disruptions,” declared David Amiel, minister for the civil service and state reform.

Visio is part of the nation’s La Suite Numérique plan, which it has been developing over the past decade in partnership with Germany and the Netherlands. This digital ecosystem of sovereign tools has been designed for apply by “public agents” and not for apply by public or private companies “with a clear objective: significantly improving control over its information systems.”

“The aim is to conclude the apply of non-European solutions and guarantee the security and confidentiality of public electronic communications by relying on a powerful and sovereign tool,” declared Amiel.