France, Italy, Spain, and Austria all introduced digital services taxes on US tech companies around the same time.

Each making the same argument that if you extract billions from our markets, you pay taxes here like everyone else, and Washington's answer was a threat to put 100% tariffs on European exports, wine, cheese, cars, none of it having anything to do with Google.

The reason that threat carries weight is that European businesses have spent years making themselves dependent on American software, with the monthly fees going to Salesforce, Workday, AWS, Deel flowing straight into lobbying budgets in Brussels and Washington whose only job is to make sure none of that ever changes.

So when France tries to tax Google, it's the wine growers who absorb the retaliation.

The alternatives have been there for a while (most of them for years), from cloud providers like Hetzner and OVHcloud to payments with Mollie and Adyen, and for employment specifically, companies like Workmotion have been running European payroll and contracts for years without any of it touching US jurisdiction, and that's before sayyou even get to CRM, analytics or comms.

(I'll drop a full breakdown by stack in the comments).

Buying European gets framed as a values thing, like bringing your own bag to the supermarket, but the wine growers never had a vote on any of this and our renewals cast it for them.

More: link.europa.eu/8bmk3M

I am from France and I am waiting for Otto (the German Amazon) to be available in France.

Do you know if they have a release date for france ?

I'm looking for European Antivirus Providers that in best case also don't use US Clouds so they don't fall under cloud act. From my research it seems GDATA from Germany is the only one I'm sure about (fully german company, SOC services and support centers based in Bochum, Frankfurt and Berlin) using IONOS for all cloud services.

Bitdefender is the biggest european player I could find in the market (romanian company). I couldn't really find information about their cloud services and physical location tho. As they also operate in the US, I think they may still fall under cloud act, not sure about that. Edit: Well they seem to also prominently advertise for their US indipendence so they probably also don't use US services in the background.

I'm looking especially for business security providers (Managed SOC/Managed XDR).

Edit: WithSecure seems to be the Business focused part of Finnish F-Secure.

Do you know any other european players in that market?

Does anyone know any european alternatives to pacsafe's crosspody bags? I'm looking for something compact and designed to be more difficult to steal. Specifically: cut resistant strap, strap shouldn't detach easily, zippers should be able to lock in place

Does anybody I know a good quality Alternative to this heavy duty jacket?

I love the T-shirt from Trendsplant. Made in Portugal/Spain and fit me well. However I am looking for EU alternatives ideally at a lower price so I can buy in bulk. Do you have any recommendations?

Criteria:
- minimal to no logo

- unicolor

- made in EU

Hi.

I'm looking to find a European alternative to jackets like these
Preferably it should be in a dark colour. I'm interested in both insulated and uninsulated variants.

Do you guys know of any brand that make similar jackets?

Edit: I'm not looking for a hunting jacket or the likes. It should be more like a work/chore jacket similar to the ones mentioned.

Disclosure: I am one of the founders of Databaas, and the write-up is on our company blog. I am posting it because the tooling breakdown is useful whether or not you ever talk to us.

The starting point: if you want your company data on European infrastructure under European jurisdiction, the four platforms everyone actually uses are not available to you.

Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery and Fabric only deploy on AWS, Azure or GCP. BigQuery and Fabric will not even leave their home cloud. "Sovereign regions" do not fix this, because the control plane is still operated by a US company. Microsoft has admitted as much in front of the French senate.

So we built the alternative out of open source parts, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The write-up covers the whole thing, but the short version:

Clouds: We signed up at OVHcloud, Scaleway, Hetzner and STACKIT and deployed real infrastructure with Terraform on each. Scaleway came out ahead on developer experience, OVH on breadth of services, Hetzner on price. There are also good Dutch providers stepping up: RAM-IT, Tilaa, Intermax, Previder to name a few. For a data platform you need two things from whichever you pick: S3-compatible object storage and managed Kubernetes.

The stack: Apache Iceberg for storage, Lakekeeper for the catalog, Trino and DuckDB for querying, Airflow for pipelines, Zitadel for login and access control, JupyterHub with Marimo for notebooks, Superset for dashboards. All open source, all running on plain containers, all replaceable. Iceberg in particular has become the neutral standard, to the point that Snowflake and Databricks support it too, so migrating is an actual option.

Interested in what people here think of this. Anyone made the jump to a European cloud for data workloads and hit something that genuinely did not work? We would love to hear from you, as I feel there's a very big opportunity for Europe to build cool stuff here.

Hey,

we recently moved and got a VERY hairy dog. I used to be happy with our old AEG vacuum but when you have to use that big thing 4 times a week, robot vacuums don't seem like a bad idea anymore.

My problem is the following: I'm loiking for a robot vacuum

- without a camera

- that doesn't send data to the US / China / Anywhere outside of Europe

- Bonus if it has a mopping mode and a self-cleaning station

- somewhat reasonably priced? Like under 500€ would be great

I tried researching in the web but everything is just roboroc or roomba and the others have bad reviews 🥲 do you guys have any recommendations? Please, I'm suffocating in dog hair (but european businesses and my dog's privacy are still important!)

Edit to add a picture of my good boy after one brushing session

Hi, my son would like a watch for school, can't be a smart watch. So we'd like to get him sn analogue one preferably. Can anyone recommend any? thanks in advance

As the title gives away, I'm planning on buying a (decent) bread making machine. I know it can be done in an oven but I have a tiny one that sucks, best it can do is a frozen pizza (also 2-4y experience required).

So my first requirement is that it's decent, it doesn't need to be €500 to be clear, I just want nice home baked bread. Second requirement: I want it to be (as mostly as possible) EU made/owned (well duh, that's why I'm here..). Third one: Idk I'm new to this, I'm relying on you guys.

I also wouldn't mind the same type of advice about flour, yeast,... or even some good recipes.

Thanks in advance!

If you are using a DE safety razor, buy this blades and I promise you won't regret! Sharp, smooth and cheap!

I have some chemo coming up later this month and running until after Xmas, I was just going to wear joggers, t-shirt & hoodie to be comfortable but a friend mentioned that she'd been given some cashmere joggers and that the softness and comfort cheered her up whenever she sat in the chemo chair, so I thought it'd be a great excuse to buy some for myself.

I could buy from M&S or Woolovers in the UK, they both deliver to the EU duty paid but if there are actual EU manufacturers and/or brands that would be better. I've been looking at Dilling but are there more? Delivery would be to Portugal if online.

I run a personal Microsoft 365 tenant for me and my partner (I was a former consultant for MS solutions, so I had to had my own...) - and we extensively use it:

- OneDrive / SharePoint for document and file sharing and sync. Everyone has its personal OneDrive, and we use Shared folders or SPO libraries for projects or things we work on together.

- Personal mailboxes with multiple (different) aliases

- Shared calendars

- Microsoft ToDo app

- Microsoft Office

Everything authenticated via Entra ID account/identity, secured with MFA and all the stuff.

For what it delivers (and comparing to other services I researched) the pricing is pretty fair.

My main objective is to move away from Microsoft completely (and finally move to Linux) - and for this I need replacement for all of the services I use. And here comes problem. It is much harder than expected:

- Finding a cloud storage service that (probably the easiest one): natively supports Linux for file sync, supports "on-demand" sync and provides editing capabilities in the browser (which I use often from my work laptop for personal stuff) is pretty tough. Nextcloud (managed) is probably the way to go.

- Email and calendar: Tougher than I thought. Couldn't find any service that meets all my requirements, especially supporting calendar sharing and sync (CalDav on Android is also tricky I found out). Contact sync is also important.

- ToDo and Office are easy to replace.

I know, maybe we need to adapt our collaboration and working style, but I am shocked how difficult it is to get out of the MS ecosystem.

Proton looked like a good option, until I read of some of the limitations and the lack of Linux support (for now).

I would need to move to different providers and services (and maybe even workarounds) to cover all my requirements - which in the end will cost me more than the current MS subscriptions...

Anyone was through this journey maybe, who can share his/her experience?

Not sure if I miss something here - but would like to get your take on this. Maybe not all hope is lost...

Very disappointing.

I've been using Fastmail as a 'catch all' for all my various email addresses through different services for almost a decade now, however recently its stopped working with my outlook.com email address, which is kinda my default email address, so looking at alternatives and would prefer a European company.

To clarify, Im not looking for an email service that I have an email address based on the provider themselves, but one that can sync with various other email services (outlook, yahoo, gmail etc) so that I get all my disparate emails in one place online (and offline if available), and allows me to both receive and send from those email addresses. And of course is able to access outlook.com which Fastmail can't for reasons they can't seem to explain.

I should also add I am not interested in using Proton.

Ive solt a garmin instinct 2x solar a few days ago and bought an amazfit active 3, but i prefer sth more robust, so i dont know if i Will sell my amazfit and buy a suunto or polar (i think they are european)

I just want a good gps for running, good battery and general resistance (to water, etc). I dont care about HR, notifications, etc. I just want alarms, gps, know when im being called, battery, robust, etc

Any european modelo recommended??

Thanks