Case in point: euro-stack.eu that promotes European software using... wait a minute...
- A wordpress.com based website hosted in California by the US company Auttomatic
- Fronted by Cloudflare, a US monopoly (this is probably part of wordpress.com paid subscription)
- Edits its letter to EU Commission asking to support European IT industry in Microsoft Word.
- Converts it to PDF with Adobe software
For all steps of the process, there are either Free or European alternatives, it just requires some extra work to find them and get used to them. European techies crave to get rid of US dominance and will help for free if only asked politely.