{"id":14393,"date":"2026-05-06T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/14393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:50:15","slug":"cloud-law-will-stop-europe-becoming-tech-colony-commission-official-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/14393\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud law will stop Europe becoming tech \u2018colony,\u2019 Commission official says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, the package has already been delayed several times \u2014 and Kleiner said Wednesday he can\u2019t be certain it will come out on that date. \u201cWe are in the process, we have designed the package,\u201d Kleiner said, adding that it\u2019s up to the Commission\u2019s top leaders to make the final call. Kleiner <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/217008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in April<\/a> that the package was running into \u201cvery effective lobbying,\u201d amid a narrative that moving away from U.S. tech would be \u201ctoo difficult, too expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments at POLITICO\u2019s AI &amp; Tech Week suggest the Commission plans to take a tough approach to wean itself off foreign tech, particularly American cloud providers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An increasing number of companies are realizing that their \u201csurvival is at stake\u201d if everything they develop depends on technology they don\u2019t control, he said. As a result they want more cloud capacity in Europe, he said. \u201cI think we will try to work on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also hinted that the EU may try to boost European cloud firms\u2019 fortunes by pushing governments to pick European industry through public procurement. \u201cWe will try to make sure that the public sector also gets its act together, and stop maybe doing things that are not reasonable in terms of having sovereign procurement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, the package has already been delayed several times \u2014 and Kleiner said Wednesday he can\u2019t be certain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,8153,79,1676,175,254,3596,86,9712,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-14393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-brussels","9":"tag-cloud","10":"tag-companies","11":"tag-development","12":"tag-industry","13":"tag-procurement","14":"tag-public-procurement","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-thibaut-kleiner","17":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116529137295020996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}