EC steps up sovereignty push with €180M award

The European Commission (EC) awarded four companies up to €180 million between them over six years to strengthen digital sovereignty through cloud services, following a tender process which launched in October 2025. The EC awarded the funds to Luxembourg’s Post Telecom, Germany’s StackIT, French operator Iliad’s data centre unit Scaleway and Belgium’s Proximus, as the bloc looks to strengthen capabilities within the region and reduce dependence on foreign technology. “The tender supports the commission’s broader efforts to enhance its own sovereignty, reinforcing strategic control across key technologies and infrastructure,” the EC stated. Post Telecom will work with partners CleverCloud and OVHcloud, while Proximus is teaming up with Thales and Google Cloud joint venture S3NS, Clarence and French AI trailblazer Mistral. The authority explained providers have been selected based on alignment with the commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework, measuring sovereignty across eight objectives including supply chain transparency, security and technological openness. It has awarded the four contracts in parallel, to ensure “diversification and resilience, avoiding over-reliance on a single provider”. Large scale use of the EU cloud is a “prerequisite” for improving the EU’s digital sovereignty, emphasised the EC, while it added the tender encourages the whole sector to comply with European standards. EC’s EVP of Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen, said on X the award “enables EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to procure sovereign cloud services. Scaling the use of EU cloud is key to strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty”. The post EC steps up sovereignty push with €180M award appeared first on Mobile World Live .