EU publishes annex on European Tech Sovereignty and Open Source

The European Commission has published ANNEXES to its Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, accompanied by an EU Open Source Strategy.

• Main announcement: The European Commission publishes an annex setting out a monitoring framework and a portfolio of ongoing and planned open source and AI actions to strengthen EU tech sovereignty, including specific funding commitments and initiatives such as NGI (EUR 190 million), SIMPL (EUR 156 million), GenAI4EU (EUR 50 million), and openEuroLLM (EUR 20 million co-investment; total project cost EUR 38 million); it also commits to operationalising a European Digital Public Infrastructure Foundation and monitoring KPIs (e.g., share of calls including open source, number of open source reference implementations, Open Internet Stack download metrics).
• Background and details: The annex lists concrete projects, timelines and support instruments: NGI projects conclude by 2027, a EUR 6 million Horizon Europe geospatial incubator planned to launch Q1 2027, openEuroLLM co-funded by Digital Europe and leveraging EuroHPC, Horizon Europe support (e.g., EUR 25 million ELLIOT), DISCRETE grants like EUR 29 million DVPS, and international capacity building (NDICI Global Europe 3 MEUR for 25 partner countries including pilot OSPOs in Kenya and Trinidad & Tobago). The document is an official Commission annex (COM(2026)503 annex) and therefore an announcement of policy and funded actions rather than opinion or analysis.