https://OpenChain-Project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/en/tags/eu-open-source-strategy/Recent content in EU Open Source Strategy on OpenChain KWGHugoenMon, 10 Aug 2026 11:20:08 +0900https://OpenChain-Project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/en/blog/2026/06/09/eu-oss-strategy/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://OpenChain-Project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/en/blog/2026/06/09/eu-oss-strategy/<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert"> <p>This article was written with Claude Code, and the key facts cited here were cross-checked against primary sources.</p> </div> <blockquote> <p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>The European Commission&rsquo;s &ldquo;Communication on European Tech Sovereignty&rdquo; (COM(2026) 503 final), published on June 3, 2026, comes with an EU Open Source Strategy attached. It is the first time open source has been placed at the center of EU digital policy. The strategy sets four objectives — leveraging open source for sovereignty, strengthening the ecosystem, opening up public administration, and reinforcing standards and international cooperation — and calls for roughly EUR 2 billion in public and private funding to be mobilized for open-source-related measures over the next seven years. The aim is to reduce the EU&rsquo;s dependence on US proprietary IT, on which it spends an estimated EUR 264 billion annually. Civil society (FSFE) and policy analysts have welcomed the direction while flagging limits: whether the funding is sufficient, how open standards relate to open source, the light treatment of open hardware, and the practitioner skills gap. For Korean public-sector and enterprise practitioners, the points worth watching directly are the opening of EU procurement, the open-source steward regulation, and the open-source default for the EUDI Wallet.</p>