Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform

I laud the attempt and I think it's important there are more projects that try to compete with their American counterparts. I do want to gently note that if your entire pitch is "we are a bold, independent European alternative that liberates you from the hegemony of the established American players," maybe don't name your product the exact same thing as the product you're replacing? "Office." They named it "Office."

From the FAQ on the homepage:

    What is Office EU?
    Office EU is a European productivity suite for files, email, calendars, documents and calls, built on Nextcloud Hub. It brings Files, Talk, Groupware and Office together in one platform.

Looking through the Office EU screenshots, they do look like Nextcloud Groupware/Files/Office with the logo changed.

Mostly adding this because I wasn't sure if it was a new product or not based on a first glance over the Office EU site. Nextcloud offers recommendations for providers on their site, most of which are in the EU [0]. This is a new project which seems to have been started around January of this year [1]. More managed hosts for Nextcloud is a good thing in my book, but it's good to go in eyes open.

[0]: https://nextcloud.com/providers/

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20260116234614/https://office.eu...

This is just a Nextcloud rebrand with a confusing domain name. It claims "Core is [100%] Open Source" but no source code is provided beyond what's already available in the upstream projects, and it's not likely there will be (as this happens a lot). It's a one-man project without a track record or certifications based out of a shared office space [1].

And don't get me wrong: there's nothing wrong with starting a business rebranding Nextcloud and keeping your development closed source, as long as your honest about that, which this initiative is not.

[1] https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/officeeu-eng/

It's always a good thing to have multiple players and I hope we can have actual EU-based alternatives, but I feel like this project, simply being a rebranded NextCloud as far as I can tell, is less interesting than La Suite numérique [1] developed by the French government or CryptPad [2] developed by XWiki, a French company based in Paris.

[1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

[2] https://cryptpad.org/

Microsoft draws over 3 billion dollars out of Norway yearly. We are many that want this number much, much closer to zero. At it's small steps like this that makes it possible.

About pricing [1]:

> What are the pricing plans?

> Office EU will offer simple plans for individuals and teams. Pricing will be competitive and designed to be easy to understand. We will publish full plan details closer to launch.

> Will there be a free plan?

> A free plan is planned after launch. It will be a good way to try Office EU before committing. Exact limits and features will be shared when it is ready.

[1] https://office.eu/faq

"Is Office.EU a scam?" https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/officeeu-eng/

This seems to be one guy who repackages nextcloud and markets it as the "european alternative" as a quick cashcrab without any own developments

> Office EU is a complete cloud-based office suite

Issue is.. if you are a traditional MS Office "poweruser", the last thing you want to do is spend your days in a web browser. These apps should also be available as native apps, similar to MS Word, Excel, Pages, Keynote, etc.

Are we gonna talk about that cookie banner? https://cleanshot.com/share/cDQ5RMkP

Am I being dumb: they say it's "open-source software" but I can't actually find a link (or links) to the software / source anywhere on the office.eu website??

Well that's a pompous headline from the author's PR dept. "Europe" as in, "The European Union", or just some marketing trick based on making you believe it is to give it more weight?

I'm european and can still easily confuse the "European Union" and "Europe the general area" when context is lacking, it's not a big stretch of the imagination for me that people _anywhere_ could construe this as "official" as well.

All that it looks like is backed by some emanation from the city of The Hague. No mention of the EU proper. It's european owned and backed, sure, but not EU owned and backed.

Tsh, marketing. (see Bill Hicks on marketing).

Has anybody tested the Email client? Is it somehow on par with Outlook (Desktop/install version)?

Weird product page, why would you put the number of member states and residents Europe has in your „feature“ section?

Cheap purchased PR slop with fake articles and no product.

e.g.:

- https://hostingdiscussion.com/news/european-cloud-workspace-...

- https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/amp/plataforma-offi...

And it seems to be repackaged Collabora (~LibreOffice):

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/office_eu_suite/

You can have hosted Nextcloud on Hetzner, with Headscale, email server, Vaultwarden, and Wordpress on European infrastructure (Hetzner) individually installed just for you from Federated Computer today for $19/month unlimited user accounts. I use it every day. Human support, too...!

Isn't Proton Docs European? Not that any European government would support them, because they don't spy on their users.

XHR requests to cookiebot.com -> dig cookiebot.com -> 141.193.213.20 -> ipinfo.io -> Austin, TX

Offices are going out of fashion.. why name a product Office in 2026?

The EU tech ecosystem is sadder every day

I can't find any info about the people behind it. The branding, mentioning "The Hague" and the rest of the landing page seems to try really hard to fool me into believing this is official from the European Union, I wouldn't trust them with anything, just get Libreoffice.

Be careful.

Has it been hugged this easily? Doesn't load for me.

Good luck to them, but without an equivalent to Microsoft Access it's not really a replacement for Microsoft Office for many power users. (Yes, I'm aware that Access has some weaknesses as a database but for quick-and-dirty custom applications it's still the easiest platform out there.)

As an American, I remember when none of this was an issue a mere 18 months ago, and it’s crazy to think we did this to ourselves. This is all so unnecessary… and dumb, very dumb.

wtf!? I enter my email address for an invitation, receive a link to an est. 2 pages form for answering a shit load of unrelated question, like org name, org country, last summer vacation, first time I got pimples... Is this a request to become the next pope?

This has been a longtime coming, it is not unique but it is still significant

The enormous momentum of the installed base and occupied headspace of Microsoft systems made them lazy and complacent decades ago. They have been peddling insecure unreliable software for a generation now, and believed their was no viable threat.

It took too long, but finally. Trump and his mad bad actions are good for the Europeans like a heart attack is good for your health