Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001866/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Virginie Joron (PfE)
The Commission has chosen non-European giants like Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google for its software and cloud infrastructure. The consequences are severe and immediate: strategic dependence and transfers of data outside Europe. That, at least, is the opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor.
This dependence is unnecessary and incompatible with the objectives of European digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy, especially when equivalent solutions are available from European providers, who need to participate in a number of public contracts to develop their expertise and capacities. The Commission must lead by example by prioritising purchases from European providers.
- 1.What percentage of the contract has the Commission awarded to each cloud service provider so far?
- 2.When can it legally terminate, even partially, the contracts concluded with Microsoft, Amazon (AWS) and Google, or when do these contracts end?
- 3.What tangible measures (revising the SIDE III and CLOUD III contract guidelines to explicitly favour European providers when offering equivalent solutions, or introducing a quota for European providers) is it taking to migrate its systems to the open and interoperable solutions of European operators, without waiting for 2026?
Submitted: 8.5.2025