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# German government's Microsoft licence spending rises to record EUR 204.5 million
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-02-24-germany-microsoft-licence-spending-record/
- Published: 2025-02-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T05:01:41.000Z
- Description: Germany's federal government paid Microsoft EUR 204.5 million for software licences in 2024, up from EUR 197.7 million, Interior Ministry figures given to Linke MP Victor Perli show. Total federal software spending hit a record EUR 1.3 billion.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [heise online, 24 February 2025](https://www.heise.de/en/news/Digital-sovereignty-Federal-government-spends-more-on-Microsoft-licenses-again-10294027.html?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not show the government taking any step to reduce the dependency, only the scale of it increasing.

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