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European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
Countries outside of the US are sick and tired of paying for what they see as untrustworthy American-dominated software-as-a-service (SaaS). As a result, many countries and companies -- especially in Europe -- are investing in digital sovereignty initiatives. The latest SaaS to address this need is Euro-Office.
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Euro-Office's 1.0 release, available June 9 for anyone to download from the project's public GitHub repositories, will come with ready‑to‑use web editors for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that support real‑time collaboration.
The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users.
The program is being developed by a who's-who of European cloud and collaboration vendors, including Ionos, Nextcloud, EuroStack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open‑Xchange, and Office.eu. The last, besides backing Euro Office, also has its own open-source, cloud-based office suite named Office EU.
The developers argue that this combination of European corporate control and open licensing addresses sovereignty and transparency concerns in a way that neither purely proprietary US suites nor small, isolated open‑source projects can.