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EU wants to favour European firms for most sensitive cloud, AI contracts

EU wants to favour European firms for most sensitive cloud, AI contracts
France 24 Wednesday 03 June 2026, 19:49 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. EU wants to favour European firms for most sensitive cloud, AI contracts Technology Issued on: Share The EU on Wednesday proposed favouring European companies in public contracts for cloud computing and AI services in the most sensitive sectors as part of a bigger package to cut reliance on foreign firms. EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen insisted that "we are not closing anyone out" but told journalists that for "very critical" sectors like defence it was "very important" that Europeans provide the services. FRANCE 24's Yuka Royer reports.
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