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On 18 June 2026, the Polish Council of Ministers announced a new Resolution for a Strategy on the Digitalisation of the State. The document includes a fully-fledged chapter on open source software use in the national public administration.

As Ryszard Łuczyn, Deputy Director of the Minister's Office of the Ministry of Digital Affairs highlights; “this is the first ever government document that actually supports the use and promotion of open source in the public administration".

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The team behind the push for inclusion of open source in the Digitalisation of State Strategy also is a newly set-up initiative, which followed an order of the Minister for Digital Affairs earlier in April. The Team for the development, dissemination and support of the implementation of open source solutions in the public sector gathers around 20 people and is mainly tasked with supporting the development of open source solutions in Poland, as well as the national ecosystem of public and private organisations and individuals engaged in this area.

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As the newly released Strategy and the creation of the Team for dissemination of open source solutions demonstrate, Poland has a strong ambition to accelerate its open source uptake.

Ryszard Łuczyn says that it all came from “an intuition, a belief that for sure, there [were] people in the local administration using open source, but that no one knew about it”. So a survey was launched earlier this year, asking over 600 units of the Polish administration about their use of open source. The set-up of the Team and the inclusion of the open source chapter in the Strategy then followed. Poland has also joined the Digital Commons EDIC (DC EDIC) as soon as it was created as one of the seven observers. This status lets the country attend Assembly meetings and take part in working groups.

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The French government has launched a programme aimed at reducing the health service’s reliance on software provided by US technology company Microsoft, in a significant shift driven by concerns over digital sovereignty and foreign control of critical infrastructure.

Central to the issue is the Plateforme des données de santé (PDS), a digital platform which, since its creation in 2019, has been hosted on Microsoft Azure, despite reservations expressed by France’s data protection authority, the CNIL.

The PDS contains records of almost every electronic interaction within the French health service. Security specialists say information that could identify patients or healthcare professionals has been removed, with the data retained in anonymised form to support medical research.

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Opposition to entrusting such a sensitive system to a US company has been a recurring theme in French political debate, focusing on the implications of placing critical infrastructure under foreign legal and political control.

The issue has gained prominence amid wider geopolitical tensions, including during the second presidency of Donald Trump and under US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Particular concern followed US sanctions imposed on judges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which intensified European debate over the vulnerability of public institutions reliant on large US technology providers.

US legislation such as the Cloud Act and provisions under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has further reinforced fears that US authorities could compel disclosure of data held by American cloud providers, even when stored in Europe.

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Digital sovereignty concerns are not limited to health data. The European Parliament has replaced Google with the French search engine Qwant on thousands of internal systems, although Qwant itself has faced criticism for reliance on Microsoft’s Bing infrastructure.

In France, similar concerns extend to government communication systems. The secure messaging platform Tchap, used by ministers and civil servants, was recently compromised after a hacker gained control of a user account. The Direction interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM) said no stored messages were accessed.

The government has also promoted adoption of the French-developed encrypted messaging app Olvid as an alternative to US-owned platforms such as WhatsApp, although uptake remains limited.

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State-backed ElectroMobility Poland (EMP) said it will partner with Taiwan's Foxconn to develop an electric vehicle production and research hub in southern Poland, advancing plans to create a domestic EV champion as Europe demand picks up.

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Battery EV sales in the European Union rose by about a third in the first quarter 2026, according to industry association ACEA, lifted in part by higher fuel prices linked to the Iran war.

EMP said it was negotiating the scope of cooperation with Foxconn and its EV subsidiary Foxtron Vehicle Technologies, including possibly forming a joint venture, and aimed to sign binding agreements in the second half of 2026.

The partners aim to finalise a package of agreements in the second half of this year, the company added, moving the long-planned project into its next phase.

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"From the outset, we have designed this project around the need for a partner that combines industrial scale with technological depth," EMP CEO Cyprian Gronkiewicz said.

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Plans include a factory in southern city of Jaworzno with body and paint shops, battery and electric drive assembly, and final vehicle assembly.

The Jaworzno hub is also expected to include a new research and development centre focused on software, data analytics and digital mobility solutions.

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Funding will come from the National Recovery Plan and the Reprivatisation Fund, which recapitalised EMP in December 2025, with the partner contributing both technology and capital, EMP said.

EMP was set up in 2016 by Poland's four state-controlled utilities to spearhead the country's homegrown EV ambitions, but the project has suffered repeated delays and strategic U-turns.

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Ryszard Łuczyn, Deputy Director of the Minister's Office of the Ministry of Digital Affairs highlights; “this is the first ever government document that actually supports the use and promotion of open source in the public administration".

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The most recent example of Microsoft and other ‘born in the USA’ software vendors being shown the door comes from the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

“The transition away from Microsoft SharePoint has been completed step by step, without disruption or data loss for employees,” explained Marco Anschütz, the state’s CIO, in a statement. “Together with DVZ M-V, we have built a platform that runs reliably today and continues to expand step by step.”

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The statement was in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s announcement of its launch of a Nextcloud-based collaboration platform, which is expected to eventually serve 50,000 state and municipal employees. DVZ M-V is the state’s IT service provider, which is hosting the platform and taking care of most of the logistics to get it running.

So far, about 5,000 employees are actively using the platform for file sharing. By the time it’s finished, it will be expanded to include chat, videoconferencing, and groupware applications. That’s not as big a feat as it sounds, since Nextcloud ships with those capabilities ready to go. (Full disclosure: Nextcloud is a Platinum Sponsor of FOSS Force.)

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