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France, Germany, Netherlands and Italy apply to form Digital Commons EDIC

France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy signed a founding document for a Digital Commons EDIC. The planned EU consortium aims to build shared open source digital infrastructure and office tools independent of US providers such as Microsoft.

Reported Editor-read netzpolitik.org, 11 July 2025

What it does not test. Does not establish that the European Commission has formally adopted the consortium; that decision followed only in October 2025.

How this item counts. This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the European Sovereignty Index.

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-19. How the record is made

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