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Microsoft outage renews European calls for digital sovereignty

Asharq News says the outage renewed existing European calls to reduce reliance on outside technology providers and build locally controlled digital infrastructure. Microsoft said Friday that services were returning at varying rates and that it had found no indication of malicious activity. The policy discussion extends beyond cloud services to chips and AI: at a Nov. 13 meeting in Dublin, EU leaders discussed AI sovereignty, investment, infrastructure and reducing critical dependencies, according to the European Council’s official record. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch put the share of European digital services running on European infrastructure at 20% and called for more investment in European infrastructure and research. One practical example cited by Asharq is Schleswig-Holstein’s 2025 move of about 40,000 email accounts from Microsoft services to open-source alternatives. The report also describes concern that dependence on US providers could become political leverage.

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