European Commission

The European Commission wants public bodies to become stronger users and contributors to open source, supported by fairer procurement, maintenance funding, security measures and long-term stewardship. ...more

For regulated Drupal projects, choosing a cloud region settles only the easiest part of the sovereignty question. Access, key custody, operations, recovery, and exit planning determine whether the hosting claim holds. ...more

Open source adoption is only part of the sovereignty question. The harder issue is whether the institutions that depend on shared software also help maintain it. ...more

The European Commission’s EU Open Source Strategy places open technologies within Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda, with attention to procurement, public-sector infrastructure, maintenance, skills, and critical technology areas. The document does not endorse specific platforms, but its emphasis on interoperability, reusable public digital assets, reduced vendor lock-in, and open standards is relevant to Drupal and other open-source systems used in institutional digital services. ...more

Open source software has moved closer to the centre of Europe’s technology sovereignty agenda. Reflecting on the European Commission’s newly released European Technological Sovereignty Package, Dries Buytaert highlights proposed funding, procurement measures, and a growing policy recognition that open source infrastructure requires sustained investment. His analysis frames the package as a meaningful step, while noting that the proposed funding remains small compared with Europe’s annual spending on largely American proprietary software and services. ...more

A new intervention in Europe’s software sovereignty debate argues that Open Source should be treated as a baseline requirement rather than a marginal procurement factor. In a blog post published on 1 April 2026, Dries Buytaert challenges how the European Commission weighs licensing in its Cloud Sovereignty Framework and warns that the same logic could carry into the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act. The argument matters beyond Drupal because it goes to the centre of how long-term software control is defined in EU cloud policy. ...more

Dries Buytaert has introduced the Software Sovereignty Scale, a five-level framework that evaluates software based on long-term legal control rather than geographic origin. In a post published on 10 February 2026, he argues that European digital sovereignty policy should give greater weight to open-source licensing and relicensing risk. ...more

Based on a conference report by Wolfgang Ziegler published by Drunomics, Drupal4Gov EU 2026 convened policymakers and technologists in Brussels on 29 January during EU Open Source Week. Sessions examined Drupal’s role in large-scale public sector platforms, shared governance models, and open-source procurement practices. ...more

Marcus Johansson recaps the 2026 “Play to Impact” Drupal AI Hackathon, where more than 70 participants built AI-driven prototypes at the European Commission in Brussels. Teams used Mistral models to explore new editorial and workflow tools, with the winning group releasing two contributed Drupal modules. ...more

Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal, calls on European governments to fix procurement systems that bypass open-source maintainers. He argues that real digital sovereignty depends not just on using open-source software, but funding those who build and sustain it. ...more

The Drupal Community of Practice at the European Commission is hosting the “Play to Impact” Drupal AI Hackathon on 27–28 January 2026 in Brussels. The event focuses on building practical AI‑driven tools in the Drupal ecosystem, including automation and Canvas AI features, and invites cross‑functional teams to collaborate and prototype solutions. ...more

A free webinar on January 13 will show how to build AI agents in Drupal with zero coding required. Part of the Free Drupal AI webinar series, this session helps users install, use, and contribute to open-source AI modules in collaboration with FreelyGive, the European Commission, and Dropsolid. ...more