The author has no basis for this claim, factually or otherwise .. maybe a small tiny group would love to see this happen, but EU is happy like rest of the world minus China to enjoy the products made by great American software companies.
> The figures were almost universal across all categories: 62 percent of those surveyed across the five European countries said they favored or had considered replacing US data storage and payment services, while 59 percent of respondents said they would back a change from American video-conferencing companies like Zoom.
(Technically only five countries in the EU in this survey, but the five most populous countries, and presumably other countries generally agree)
the poll may be telling us as much about the priorities and assumptions of the people asking the question as it does about public opinion… in fact, the need to run a poll on this specific question arguably says more about the agenda behind it than the resuglt itself ..
This page includes a video of our Prime Minister, in English. You should listen to what he says. The time of depending on America's security umbrella is over.
To give you an example, if India or China or Africa holds a summit on climate change, it doesn’t mean that its citizens want that or even care about it.
Anyway, the idea that such a big geography should move away from the best software factory of the world because it has some political agenda with its current leader is both impossible and overall quite childish and will never come to fruition.