European cloud workspace Office EU emerges as sovereign alternative to big tech suites

A newly introduced online productivity platform is drawing attention across Europe as governments and businesses intensify efforts to reduce reliance on foreign cloud providers. The platform, known as Office EU, presents itself as a fully European owned cloud office suite operating exclusively on infrastructure located within the region.

EUfforic Europe BV operates Office EU. The company registered in late 2025 and headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. The service promotes a digital sovereignty approach by hosting its systems entirely within Europe. Technical indicators suggest the platform currently runs on infrastructure connected to Hetzner, with hosting activity linked to a data center in Helsinki.

Office EU enters a market long dominated by services such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Nevertheless, rather than developing an entirely new system, the service utilizes existing open-source collaboration technology.

From the information provided on the Office EU website, the service utilizes the Nextcloud Hub system, which integrates file storage, video calls, messaging, calendar, and document editing into a single environment. As such, the service likely utilizes code from multiple open-source projects.

Document editing within the environment uses technology linked to Nextcloud Office, which Collabora Productivity develops in cooperation with Nextcloud. Collabora Online, built on LibreOffice, powers that integration.

Earlier versions of Nextcloud integrated a different editor through ONLYOFFICE, and that option remains compatible with the ecosystem. In addition, Nextcloud signed an agreement with Thinkfree in 2025 to support another document editing alternative. As a result, several office tools can operate within the broader platform depending on configuration.

The emergence of services like Office EU reflects a wider debate taking place within Europe about control over digital infrastructure and data governance. There has been increasing traction in recent years among policymakers and tech organizations regarding the dependency on external clouds.

Whilst it is possible for organizations to create their own environments that include similar collaboration software, it is not necessarily the case that organizations have the internal skills necessary to create such environments. Hosted services that assemble these components into ready to use platforms may therefore attract attention from businesses seeking European based alternatives for workplace collaboration.