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Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword, it's the future
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That came loud and clear last month in Amsterdam at KubeCon Europe 2026.
Key facts
- Back in February 2025, Trump had the Department of State impose sanctions on 11 senior members of the International Criminal Court
- Today, it's not Windows so much that has Europeans worried as their dependence on Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other US‑based collaboration tools
- As Margrethe Vestager, the EU's former competition commissioner, told The Times, it's high time for the EU to break its dependency on America
- These alternatives to Microsoft 365 and Google Docs, often based on Nextcloud, are rapidly being rolled out
Summary
Opinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? In the Netherlands' capital, everyone was talking about digital sovereignty. Heck, there was a sold-out Open Sovereign Cloud Day at the conference's start. In a lunch interview, Thierry Carrez, general manager of Linux Foundation Europe, explained that while technologies like confidential computing can stop cloud providers from reading data by encrypting data in memory, there's no tech answer if the Trump administration insists on an American company flipping the kill switch on your email, your office software, or even access to your US-hosted data. Carrez stressed that this risk is no longer theoretical.