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Welcome to BuyFromEU—a community committed to supporting European-made products and services! Whether you're searching for locally crafted fashion, innovative technology, delicious food, or professional services, this is your space to share, explore, and promote businesses that strengthen the European market.

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List of companies/brands by home country (www.goeuropean.org)
submitted 1 month ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9301725

While I find the wiki-style site for European alternatives ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ ) very helpful and have started using it fairly regularly, I feel like it misses an option to just look up a brand or company and easily find out where it's from. Maybe that is already an option and I haven't found it. If so, please point me in that direction.

If not, what I would hope for, is a quick and simple place to check if a given brand or company is perhaps American owned (or more generally where it's profit ultimately goes). For example, I seriously doubt my mother in law would be able to know that Toblerone is an American owned brand. The current wiki pre-supposes that users already know this.

The average EU citizen is in his mid 40s and likely not all that tech savvy. Purchasing power skews towards older folks anyway, so it should be a goal to get this demographic on board. Does anyone have a starting off point where one can easily find the information on a specific company or brand on the go? Could something like this be added to the current site ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ )?

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Tony's Chocolonely (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42772420

Tony's Chocolonely is a Dutch chocolate manufacturer and seller. Created in 2005, the company's market share in the Netherlands was 18 percent in 2018.

In 2022, the Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded Tony's Chocolonely the Stop Slavery Award in the category "Goods and Services Companies". This award recognizes companies and organizations who have set a high standard for eradicating slavery, illegal child labor, and human trafficking from their supply chains.

Tony's Chocolonely was ranked second on the 2023 Chocolate Scorecard, which rates chocolate companies according to their human rights and environmental credentials: traceability and transparency, living income for cocoa farmers, child labour (absence of), deforestation & climate, agroforestry, and agrochemical management.

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Tempest Rising, a real time strategy (RTS) game made by a Danish studio (works well on Linux) (tempestrising.com)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/32711054

https://www.protondb.com/app/1486920

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mailbox.org launches ‘GoEuropean’ promotion: 6 months free for new customers (mailbox.org)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34965111

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Please support free and open-source software (europe.pub)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/18447177

This year, I gave 10 euros to Libre Office

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I gave 5 euros to VLC

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

I gave 5 euros to Qbittorent

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

They are doing fantastic work. Millions of people around are using these software. No stolen data. No advertising bullshit.

I come from a low-income country. Europeans can afford to give much more.

Last year, the CEO of Adobe earned 40 million dollars. He only travels in an armored SUV with bodyguards. He has been described as ''completely obsessed'' about money and power. If he could get away with it, he would probably murder open source developers to send a message.

With extremely limited ressources, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive are doing fantastic work, offering free alternatives to Adobe.

Please support open source software developers.

You don't have to donate fortunes. Just adopt 1 software.

If I can do it, so can you.

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Fairphone's 2024 impact report (www.fairphone.com)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42712269

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Germany's lesser-known beers that are worth a try (www.thelocal.de)
submitted 23 hours ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42783655

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EU chief: ‘Countries lining up to work with us’ amid Trump tariffs (thehill.com)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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Literally buying from EU

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Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won't give their digital lives back (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 2 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/339979

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The full guide to switching from big US tech to supporting EU-based companies! (Redone with OSs added) (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28522846

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The European Commission wants You to give Open-Source Software a chance – Buy European no.1 (www.ecuradio.eu)
submitted 3 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42633619

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Firefox, VLC, Gimp, KeePass, LibreOffice among open source software endorsed by French Government (www.numerama.com)
submitted 4 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/18244879

The full list:

https://code.gouv.fr/sill/list

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STACKIT – The German business cloud (www.stackit.de)
submitted 3 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/32650417

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New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 5 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28428710

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Portugal approaches Saab to purchase Gripen fighter jets following withdrawal from US F-35 program (armyrecognition.com)
submitted 5 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42527553

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European CEOs are starting to publish their intentions to use EU products (www.linkedin.com)
submitted 4 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/buyeuropean@feddit.uk/t/2074870

Let’s back our own EU Tech industry. At & The Big Fish, we’re exploring a move to European IT solutions, like; • TUXEDO OS (instead of Windows) • ONLYOFFICE (instead of Microsoft Office) • Nextcloud Hub, EU-hosted (instead of Google Drive) Admittedly a bit opportunistic and I know large organizations can’t pivot like this easily. But SMEs and startups can! Using this stack or joining this movement? Drop your thoughts or tips below! #europeantech #cloud #digitalsovereignty #executivesearch #gdpr #buylocal Marloes Pomp Techleap TUXEDO Computers GmbH ONLYOFFICE Nextcloud www.andthebigfish.com

They even want to buy computers from @tuxedocomputers and use @nextcloud

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Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 6 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28376200

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud (www.linuxlinks.com)
submitted 4 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42596796

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This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US? (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 5 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28434993

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Buy European Stickers (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 days ago by ceiron@lemm.ee to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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Dear Fellow Europeans

Any recommendations on where to buy a small number “Buy European” stickers in various sizes and materials that I can stick to my laptop/phone?

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Running Away from Nike: Top European Sneaker Brands That Keep You Ahead (euronomy.eu)
submitted 6 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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Europe Can Replace U.S. Trade — Here’s How. (yewtu.be)
submitted 5 days ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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Google crushed in court as judge rules on tech giant's monopoly case (www.themirror.com)
submitted 1 week ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/237590

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Trump tariffs reignite Europe’s push for cloud sovereignty (thenextweb.com)
submitted 1 week ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61557215

Thankfully, Europe has loads of homegrown cloud providers. The largest is France’s OVHcloud, which runs the world’s largest data centre by surface area. Others include Finland’s UpCloud, Switzerland’s Exoscale, Germany’s IONOS, and France’s Scaleway (the cloud provider of choice for French AI unicorn Mistral).

Political momentum on this front looks to be building. In a speech yesterday, France’s AI minister, Clara Chappaz, called on the continent to “work as a pack” to take on US “predator” tech firms, particularly in the cloud services sector.

https://archive.ph/03Ihx

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Fairphone featured in German Netflix show "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)", S04E06 * (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 week ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42360563

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