{"id":37569,"date":"2026-06-03T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/37569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:49:00","slug":"eu-wants-to-favour-european-firms-for-most-sensitive-cloud-ai-contracts-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/37569\/","title":{"rendered":"EU wants to favour European firms for most sensitive cloud, AI contracts \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"EU wants to favour European firms for most sensitive cloud, AI contracts \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKlTu1WllmE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nEU wants to favour European firms for most sensitive cloud, AI contracts \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe 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 &#8220;we are not closing anyone out&#8221; but told journalists that for &#8220;very critical&#8221; sectors like defence it was &#8220;very important&#8221; that Europeans provide the services. FRANCE 24&#8217;s Yuka Royer reports.<br \/>\n#EU #policy #tech<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU wants to favour European firms for most sensitive cloud, AI contracts \u2022 FRANCE 24 English The EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4402,34353,3628,4135,22,23,20,21,20799,3510,31752,3196,2053],"class_list":["post-37569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-apple","tag-bigtech","tag-eu","tag-european-commission","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-google","tag-meta","tag-microsoft","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116687925667696283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}