In Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers, Ben Werdmuller quotes Alexandra Geese (member of the European Parliament):

“Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a level playing field for information, safeguard media freedom and guarantee genuine freedom of speech, including the right to access facts instead of being fed lies and propaganda.”

As Bert Hubert highlights (Dutch article), government organizations in the Netherlands are still focussed on migrating everything to US cloud infrastructure. In spite of rules being in place that don’t allow this.

There is a long road ahead…