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# French Assembly inquiry finds EUR 1.5 billion public software spend non-European
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-07-15-france-assemblee-nationale-digital-dependency-report/
- Published: 2026-07-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-24T04:00:35.000Z
- Description: France's National Assembly inquiry committee, chaired by Philippe Latombe with Cyrielle Chatelain as rapporteur, found 79 percent of 2025 public software spending, about EUR 1.5 billion a year, goes to non-European vendors, and urged mandatory open-source procurement from 2030.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Banque des Territoires, 16 July 2026](https://www.banquedesterritoires.fr/souverainete-numerique-la-mission-de-lassemblee-nationale-appelle-letat-reprendre-la-main?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that the government or Parliament will adopt any of the committee's 47 recommendations.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Inquiry findings/recommendations only, not adopted by government. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/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 2026-09-24\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)