QWANT SLATED TO REPLACE GOOGLE SEARCH IN THE EU PARLIAMENT
Since June 4, 2026, the 720 European Members of Parliament, and the thousands of staff of the European Parliament have seen Qwant displayed by default in the address bar of their Firefox and Edge browsers. This decision came following the request in the autumn of 2025 by several MEPs that the Parliament reduce its dependence on the Microsoft 365 suite and on American tools in general. Qwant was already specifically mentioned there as a credible alternative. Bought by Octave Klaba, founder of OVHcloud, in collaboration with the Caisse des dépôts, Qwant then acquired the metasearch engine Lilo in May 2025 and the following month created a joint venture with the German company Ecosia, called European Search Perspective (EUSP). The ambition is to develop a true European search index, named Staan (Search Trusted API Access Network), hosted in Europe and prioritizing data protection. Qwant already relies on this index for 50% of its results, and Ecosia for 33% of its queries.
WILL FRANCE BE SUED BY THE EU FOR PERSISTENT DELAY IN ADOPTING NIS2?
France should have entered NIS2 into national law by January 16, 2023. More than two years later, it’s not done.The EU Commission has already warned France and some other countries twice. Now it could launch an official infringement procedure. The reason for the daley is known: an arm wrestling between the French Services which want to benefit from backdoors in communication systems, and the majority of Parliament members, who are hostile to such a decision thinking, as the ECA does, that backdoors are the worst of all solutions, as they sooner or later would be exploited for evil reasons.
