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Kevin Okemwa

LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as "a freeware clone" of Microsoft Office — riding on digital sovereignty

European union flag with a robot hand typing on a keyboard.

Last month, I reported that a coalition of European enterprises and community organizations, including IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, and BTactic, was getting ready to launch Euro-Office on June 9, 2025. It's a Europe-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) designed to give Microsoft Office and Google Docs a run for their money.

Euro-Office has been heavily promoted as a sovereign alternative for public authorities, education systems, and some enterprises, moving away from overreliance on US-based cloud productivity services.

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