EU Teams Backup Fails Staff

The European Commission deployed Element Pro as a self‑hosted backup to Microsoft Teams to keep communications on EU infrastructure, but internal officials complain the tool is hard to use and offers no clear added value compared with Teams. The rollout shows that technical sovereignty measures can falter if they ignore user experience and operational needs. — This matters because many governments are weighing ‘sovereignty’ software against widely adopted commercial tools, and poor adoption can undermine both security goals and political credibility.