16 EU companies criticize Belgian proposal allowing Amazon, Google, Microsoft to bid for EU cloud contracts without joint ventures, raising concerns about data accessibility and US market dominance.
16 EU companies, including Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and Airbus, have criticized a Belgian proposal that would allow Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to bid for sensitive EU cloud computing contracts without establishing joint ventures with EU-based companies. The proposal's removal of sovereignty requirements raises concerns about European data accessibility by foreign governments and could increase US cloud providers' dominance in the EU market. The companies suggest following Europe's Gaia-X cloud computing platform, which has sovereignty requirements.
April 10, 2024
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