This does not surprise me at all. I worked in Italy for 2 years and in Germany for 4 years. A sense of `US/CIA/NSA-phobia` is strong among many companies and is often used to justify not using US datacenters, cloud-services and SaaS tools. I have to admit I do not fully understand it, but I am inclined to think it is mostly a bias and not driven by actual risk assessments. Having conducted risk assessments and threat analysis myself for various companies with a global presence, I was most intrigued by this phenomenon in the EU as it was mostly not driven by technical accuracy.
In my experience, very few companies in the EU actually care about innovation and lack world-class engineers.
In my experience, very few companies in the EU actually care about innovation and lack world-class engineers.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_EU