It's hard to overstate how unhelpful EU Commissioner #Séjourné's new #BuyEuropean push is.

"Car makers were absent from the list, however, since, owing to their sprawling global supply chains, they are concerned about how narrow the #MadeInEurope definition will be."

Of course they are. Good luck getting coffee and banana's from European producers. 🙄

Instead of using public #procurement as industrial policy tool, governments should use it to buy ethical, value-based & with societal purpose.

It's hard to overstate how unhelpful EU Commissioner #Séjourné's new #BuyEuropean push is.

"Car makers were absent from the list, however, since, owing to their sprawling global supply chains, they are concerned about how narrow the #MadeInEurope definition will be."

Of course they are. Good luck getting coffee and banana's from European producers. 🙄

Instead of using public #procurement as industrial policy tool, governments should use it to buy ethical, value-based & with societal purpose.

@juanlu.space @ox.ca the followup was in the panel: Public Procurement for Digital Sovereignty
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WKCBGM-procurement-sovereignty/ #FOSDEM

#procurement #OpenSource #funding #business #innovation

@juanlu.space #OpenSource components MUST be declared on all bids to a #PublicTender.

And more, the bidder MUST declare its #contributions to each project, or say it has none.

#PublicAdministration #policy #procurement #business