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France orders all ministries to adopt sovereign Tchap app, bans foreign messengers

French PM Francois Bayrou signed a circular, published 4 August 2025, ordering ministries and cabinets to use the sovereign Tchap app for work messaging. It bars WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal from official use from 1 September 2025.

Reported Editor-read Open Source Observatory, European Commission Interoperable Europe, 2025

What it does not test. Does not establish that administrations have actually migrated off foreign apps by the deadline.

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 2026-10-16. How the record is made

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