The EU Open Source Strategy (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu) AI

The European Commission’s EU Open Source Strategy aims to strengthen Europe’s technological sovereignty by promoting European open alternatives to non-EU proprietary software and by supporting the development, scaling, deployment and long-term sustainability of open source across public and private sectors. It addresses challenges such as limited long-term funding, difficulty maintaining projects, fragmented visibility, and dependence on dominant non-EU providers, with actions spanning procurement and public administration adoption, open source business models, standards and international outreach, and maintenance/security measures for critical components.