In brief: The European Parliament is building its own AI platform but continues to rely on dominant US American models instead of European alternatives.
The European Parliament is launching the EPGenAI Hub as a controlled alternative to freely available AI tools in legislative work. However, the platform integrates US American language models alongside local ones – contradicting its own sovereignty objectives.
The European Parliament is introducing its own infrastructure for generative AI to structure ad hoc use of public services in lawmaking. The EPGenAI Hub will be available to members and staff starting September 2026 and is intended to make administrative processes in parliamentary operations more efficient. A beta version has already been demonstrated in internal workshops.
The platform offers users a selection architecture between locally and externally hosted models. Locally operated are Llama (Meta), GPT-OSS (OpenAI) and Mistral Small (Mistral). For external requests, ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Claude Sonnet (Anthropic) are available. This two-pillar structure is designed to enable control over data processing on one hand, while preserving access to powerful, externally operated systems on the other.
The choice of these models stands in tension with explicit EU strategy objectives. In June 2026, Parliament already replaced Google Search with Qwant on all service computers – a step toward reducing dependence on digital tools outside the EU. A Parliament spokesperson explained at the time: “It is part of a larger framework of measures aimed at reducing the European Parliament’s dependence on digital tools outside the EU and promoting European, data protection-oriented services.” The integration of OpenAI and Anthropic systems into the EPGenAI Hub factually contradicts this claim.
European open-source initiatives are making progress but remain marginally positioned in the market. A German research consortium released Soofi S, which outperforms other open-source competitors in performance tests, but is not operated as an interactive chatbot. Portugal launched Amália in July 2026, a model optimized for Portuguese for government and business use. Such specialized European solutions have not yet been integrated into the EPGenAI Hub.
Source: www.it-daily.net · Published 21 July 2026
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