On April 8, the inter‑ministerial digital directorate (DINUM) convened a summit with the DGE, ANSSI and the State procurement office to accelerate France’s push away from non‑European software. Ministers, public operators and private vendors gathered to chart a collective exit from Windows and other foreign‑origin tools. The meeting set a clear target: shrink the state’s reliance on extra‑EU digital stacks.

First concrete step announced by DINUM is the migration of all government workstations to a Linux‑based OS, replacing the long‑standing Windows deployment. Meanwhile, the national health insurance fund has already begun moving its 80,000 employees onto the sovereign digital suite that includes Tchap, Visio and FranceTransfert. A separate decree aims to shift the health‑data platform to a trusted European solution by the end of 2026.

To translate policy into action, DINUM will require each ministry—and its incumbent public operators—to draft a dependency‑reduction plan by autumn, covering workstations, collaboration tools, antivirus, AI, databases, virtualization and network gear. The State procurement office’s dependency map and the DGE’s European service blueprint will feed a quantitative target and schedule. June’s first industry‑digital meet‑up will cement public‑private alliances aimed at delivering a sovereign European stack.