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All Rights Reserved. Business France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US French President Emmanuel Macron is seen during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) 1 of 2 | French President Emmanuel Macron is seen during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) Read More Henna Virkkunen, European Commissioner for Tech-Sovereignty, Security and Democracy gives a press conference at the end of the weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on April 9, 2025. 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(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share * Facebook * Copy Link copied * Print * Email * X * LinkedIn * Bluesky * Flipboard * Pinterest * Reddit Read More Henna Virkkunen, European Commissioner for Tech-Sovereignty, Security and Democracy gives a press conference at the end of the weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File) 2 of 2 | Henna Virkkunen, European Commissioner for Tech-Sovereignty, Security and Democracy gives a press conference at the end of the weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File) Read More 2 of 2 Henna Virkkunen, European Commissioner for Tech-Sovereignty, Security and Democracy gives a press conference at the end of the weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share * Facebook * Copy Link copied * Print * Email * X * LinkedIn * Bluesky * Flipboard * Pinterest * Reddit Read More By KELVIN CHAN Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Leer en espanol Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Comments Share * Facebook * Copy Link copied * Print * Email * X * LinkedIn * Bluesky * Flipboard * Pinterest * Reddit LONDON (AP) -- In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office. Bureaucrats in a German state have also turned to free software for their administrative work. Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives. The push for "digital sovereignty" is gaining attention as the Trump administration strikes an increasingly belligerent posture toward the continent, highlighted by recent tensions over Greenland that intensified fears that Silicon Valley giants could be compelled to cut off access. Concerns about data privacy and worries that Europe is not doing enough to keep up with the United States and Chinese tech leadership are also fueling the drive. The French government referenced some of these concerns when it announced last week that 2.5 million civil servants would stop using video conference tools from U.S. providers -- including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting -- by 2027 and switch to Visio, a homegrown service. Related Stories Specialist Joseph Maguire works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Tech stocks pull Wall Street lower as gold and silver prices bounce back 3 MIN READ Elon Musk attends a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) Elon Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company 3 MIN READ Trader William Lawrence works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) After a day of sharp swings, Wall Street ends nearly where it began 3 MIN READ The objective is "to put an end to the use of non-European solutions, to guarantee the security and confidentiality of public electronic communications by relying on a powerful and sovereign tool," the announcement said. "We cannot risk having our scientific exchanges, our sensitive data, and our strategic innovations exposed to non-European actors," David Amiel, a civil service minister, said in a press release. Microsoft said it continues to "partner closely with the government in France and respect the importance of security, privacy, and digital trust for public institutions." The company said it is "focused on providing customers with greater choice, stronger data protection, and resilient cloud services -- ensuring data stays in Europe, under European law, with robust security and privacy protections." Zoom, Webex and GoTo Meeting did not respond to requests for comment. French President Emmanuel Macron has been pushing digital sovereignty for years. But there's now a lot more "political momentum behind this idea now that we need to de-risk from U.S. tech," Nick Reiners, senior geotechnology analyst at the Eurasia Group. "It feels kind of like there's a real zeitgeist shift," Reiners said It was a hot topic at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of global political and business elites last month in Davos, Switzerland. The European Commission's official for tech sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen, told an audience that Europe's reliance on others "can be weaponized against us." "That's why it's so important that we are not dependent on one country or one company when it comes to very critical fields of our economy or society," she said, without naming countries or companies. A decisive moment came last year when the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor after the tribunal, based in The Hague, Netherlands, issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an ally of President Donald Trump. The sanctions led Microsoft to cancel Khan's ICC email, a move that was first reported by The Associated Press and sparked fears of a "kill switch" that Big Tech companies can use to turn off service at will. Microsoft maintains it kept in touch with the ICC "throughout the process that resulted in the disconnection of its sanctioned official from Microsoft services. At no point did Microsoft cease or suspend its services to the ICC." Microsoft President Brad Smith has repeatedly sought to strengthen trans-Atlantic ties, the company's press office said, and pointed to an interview he did last month with CNN in Davos in which he said that jobs, trade and investment. as well as security, would be affected by a rift over Greenland. "Europe is the American tech sector's biggest market after the United States itself. It all depends on trust. Trust requires dialogue," Smith said. Other incidents have added to the movement. There's a growing sense that repeated EU efforts to rein in tech giants such as Google with blockbuster antitrust fines and sweeping digital rule books haven't done much to curb their dominance. Billionaire Elon Musk is also a factor. Officials worry about relying on his Starlink satellite internet system for communications in Ukraine. Washington and Brussels wrangled for years over data transfer agreements, triggered by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's revelations of U.S. cyber-snooping. With online services now mainly hosted in the cloud through data centers, Europeans fear that their data is vulnerable. U.S. cloud providers have responded by setting up so-called "sovereign cloud" operations, with data centers located in European countries, owned by European entities and with physical and remote access only for staff who are European Union residents. The idea is that "only Europeans can take decisions so that they can't be coerced by the U.S.," Reiners said. The German state of Schleswig-Holstein last year migrated 44,000 employee inboxes from Microsoft to an open source email program. It also switched from Microsoft's SharePoint file sharing system to Nextcloud, an open source platform, and is even considering replacing Windows with Linux and telephones and videoconferencing with open source systems. "We want to become independent of large tech companies and ensure digital sovereignty," Digitalization Minister Dirk Schrodter said in an October announcement. The French city of Lyon said last year that it's deploying free office software to replace Microsoft. Denmark's government and the cities of Copenhagen and Aarhus have also been trying out open-source software. "We must never make ourselves so dependent on so few that we can no longer act freely," Digital Minister Caroline Stage Olsen wrote on LinkedIn last year. "Too much public digital infrastructure is currently tied up with very few foreign suppliers." The Austrian military said it has also switched to LibreOffice, a software package with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs that mirrors Microsoft 365's Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Document Foundation, a nonprofit based in Germany that's behind LibreOffice, said the military's switch "reflects a growing demand for independence from single vendors." Reports also said the military was concerned that Microsoft was moving file storage online to the cloud -- the standard version of LibreOffice is not cloud-based. Some Italian cities and regions adopted the software years ago, said Italo Vignoli, a spokesman for The Document Foundation. Back then, the appeal was not needing to pay for software licenses. Now, it's the main reason is to avoid being locked into a proprietary system. "At first, it was: we will save money and by the way, we will get freedom," Vignoli said. "Today it is: we will be free and by the way, we will also save some money." ___ Associated Press writer Molly Quell in The Hague, Netherlands contributed to this report. ___ This version corrects the contribution line to Molly Quell instead of Molly Hague. KELVIN CHAN Chan covers technology and innovation in Europe and beyond for The Associated Press. twitter mailto Most read Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) 1. Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Noem says 2. An internal document shows the Vietnamese military preparing for a possible American war 3. Seeking shelter from Trump's fury, US trade partners reach deals with each other 4. Live updates: Trump signs budget bill bringing an end to partial government shutdown 5. 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