Katri Kulmuni thinks that the EU should have its own operating system.

According to Yle news Finland's Minister of Finance and leader of Centre Party Katri Kulmuni said:

Käytännössä kyberomavaraisuus tarkoittaa esimerkiksi eurooppalaista käyttöjärjestelmää ja www-selainta. EU voisi toimia myös varmenteiden myöntäjänä . . .

In practice cyberspace means for example European operating system and WWW-browser. EU could also work as certificate giver . . .

I am not so sure about the certificate part. There will be trust issues if that bill doesn't include really heavy government power limiters. Also, I have heard rumblings that the certificate system should be overhauled to be decentralized but don't know if that is going to work. Not really a security specialist. I think she is saying this more as a party leader than a minister. I would think the Ministry of Transport and Communications is one hows area this is. Then again Kulmuni is also Deputy Prime Minister.

Problem she appears to have is that the EU doesn't have companies that make key cyber "infrastructure". Finnish Nokia is losing to Chinese Huawei on 5G right now. 5G stuff is where I worry too but how government can fix that without aggressive behaviour Kulmuni didn't explain. Throwing money to Nokia doesn't sound smart since to my knowledge Nokia's leaders are a bit stupid. She just says Parhaimmillaan luomme uusia liiketoimintamahdollisuuksia . . . translates as at best we create new business opportunities.

The main oddness for me is that we would need a European operating system and browser. Most of the server side operating systems are Linuxes and desktop is dominated by Windows [source]. The two biggest browsers in the world are Chrome and Firefox [source]. All of them especially Chrome and Windows have big US companies behind them but three out of four are open source. I hope that Kulmuni doesn't want Europe to have its own Microsoft on the OS market. A better idea would push Linux and Firefox to every household. There isn't a point in inventing the wheel again on this. If Kulmuni really wants this she should try to get government offices to stop using Windows and start using Linux. Having company do support for government's Linux desktops should be enough money to get a large portion of kernel commit slice and show Finnish business to take Linux seriously. Good portion of Linux commits are already done by German openSUSE. The hypothetical company would also support other open source projects needed for office work so tax money is used to benefit people directly. Still change like this could cause headaches so it should be taken slowly.