{"id":16694,"date":"2025-09-23T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1414989"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:30:32","slug":"the-eus-e2t-budget-overlooks-a-key-tech-pillar-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16694","title":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s \u20ac2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2023%2F09%2FUntitled-design-1-2.jpg&#038;signature=69913cdebe8fe550edb6f738ee58115a\" width=\"796\" height=\"417\"><br \/>On July 16, the European Commission proposed a \u20ac2tn seven-year budget \u2013\u00a0the largest in the EU\u2019s history \u2013 to boost autonomy, competitiveness, and resilience. The spending plan addresses cybersecurity, innovation, and other key digital pillars, but omits a crucial component: open source. Open source software \u2013 built and maintained by communities rather than private companies alone, and free to edit and modify \u2013 is the foundation of today\u2019s digital infrastructure. Since the 1990s, it has been ever-present in the digital infrastructure that European industry and public sector institutions depend on, creating huge dependencies on open source applications and libraries. From&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/eu-budget-open-source?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/eu-budget-open-source\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 16, the European Commission proposed a \u20ac2tn seven-year budget \u2013\u00a0the largest in the EU\u2019s history \u2013 to boost autonomy, competitiveness, and resilience. The spending plan addresses cybersecurity, innovation, and other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}