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# Study: German councils less dependent on US email providers than Austria, Switzerland
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-09-30-th-nuernberg-municipal-email-sovereignty-study/
- Published: 2026-09-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-30T10:59:03.000Z
- Description: A Technische Hochschule Nurnberg study of 15,331 municipal email servers found just 7.2 percent of German councils rely on US providers, against 67 percent in Austria and 53.3 percent in Switzerland, though German security standards lag.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [Kommune21, 30 September 2026](https://www.kommune21.de/k21-meldungen/deutschlands-kommunen-mailen-souveraen/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This does not establish that German municipalities plan to fix the weak DMARC and DANE adoption the study found.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. study of existing state across three countries, no decision or change. [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 and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)