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Politico (20 April 2026)

Mathieu POLLET and Anouk SCHLUNG

Thanks to Trump, EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won’t be cheap or easy.

Inside Amsterdam’s red-brick city hall, Alexander Scholtes, the official who spearheaded the Dutch capital’s push to break up with U.S. technology, looked down at his tablet.

How often does he still rely on Big Tech? “Right now, all the time,” he said, waving the device loaded with Microsoft software — an active reminder of a hard reality that stretches far beyond his city.

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