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France signs Digital and AI Pact steering state IT purchases toward sovereign vendors

Ministers Anne Le Hénanff and David Amiel signed a "pacte numérique et IA" with industry bodies Hexatrust and Numeum, committing the French state to steer public IT procurement toward sovereign, European owned digital and AI solutions.

Verified AI-drafted Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances press release, 10 September 2026

What it does not test. It sets no budget, percentage target or named supplier; whether procurement practice actually shifts remains to be seen.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Pact pledges sovereign procurement steer, no budget, target or supplier set yet. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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