Euro-Office: Europe's answer to Microsoft

A group of European companies and organizations has unveiled Euro-Office, an office application suite designed for document processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. The initiative aims to provide a truly sovereign solution, developed in collaboration by over a dozen different entities.

The project is supported by major European tech firms such as IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, and BTactic. The first stable release is planned for the summer.

Digital Sovereignty: A Growing Need

Across Europe, public administrations, businesses, and educational institutions are reconsidering their dependence on non-European productivity platforms. Office software remains a critical infrastructure, but currently, there is no solution that combines full compatibility with Microsoft formats, a familiar user experience, and genuine digital sovereignty under European leadership.

Achim Weiss, CEO of IONOS, stated: "With the geopolitical developments we have seen in the last year, there is a clear need for a sovereign, reliable, fully Microsoft-compatible, and easy-to-use office solution in Europe."

Existing alternatives often require trade-offs between compatibility and usability, are burdened by legal risks related to licenses and trademarks, or are developed without transparent and open governance, lacking an independent and sustainable contributor community. For organizations handling sensitive information and public data, this creates a structural risk.

Euro-Office directly addresses this gap. It is designed to seamlessly handle widely used document, spreadsheet, and presentation formats while offering an interface that minimizes the need for retraining and migration friction.

The entire code is released under an open-source license, free from trademark constraints, and developed in a transparent process open to public scrutiny and contribution. The result is an office suite built not only for functionality but also for strategic resilience.

Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, said: "Europe has had the technical building blocks for years. What was missing until now was an initiative to bring them together into a meaningful and comprehensive solution."

A public tech preview of Euro-Office is immediately available on GitHub. The preview allows organizations and individuals to evaluate core functionality, test compatibility, and provide feedback in anticipation of the first stable release planned for the summer.