# France DGSI ChapsVision Replacement On **June 16, 2026**, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced that the DGSI — France's domestic intelligence service — would replace [[Palantir]] with the French firm [[ChapsVision]]. The stated reason was not price or performance but dependency: France "cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere," Lecornu said, and must avoid relying on partners "capable of turning off the tap." The announcement was paired with a €655M French investment in artificial intelligence. The exit is a multi-year transition rather than a switch thrown. Notably, Paris is unwinding a relationship it had *just* renewed: the DGSI's Palantir contract was extended for three years in December 2025, six months before the announcement. ## The continental pivot What initially looked like a French one-off widened over the following six weeks: - **Germany.** A Bloomberg feature on July 27, 2026 reported that a German intelligence service had also selected ChapsVision over Palantir — a second national security service defection, and the fact that turned "France drops Palantir" into a pattern. - **The Netherlands.** Dutch State Secretary Derk Boswijk said on June 2, 2026 that the defense ministry was seeking a "fully fledged alternative" to Palantir within two years. - **A competitor ecosystem.** The same Bloomberg reporting noted that two British startups co-founded by Palantir alumni — Valarian and Arrakis — raised funding in July 2026 to compete with their former employer. ## Why it matters This is the first time a major EU government dropped Palantir on explicit **digital-sovereignty** grounds, and it moves the counter-Palantir story out of the activist register tracked under [[Purge Palantir]] and into state procurement. Campaign pressure can cost Palantir a hospital system or a municipal contract; a sovereignty doctrine adopted at head-of-government level threatens the European renewal pipeline as a whole — and it produces something a boycott cannot, a credible domestic vendor with intelligence-service references. It also sharpens a contrast worth tracking: in the same window that European governments moved to exit on sovereignty grounds, Palantir marketed U.S. agencies its own sovereignty story through the [[Palantir-NVIDIA Sovereign AI Partnership]] — "you own the weights," deployed in classified and air-gapped environments. Same word, opposite direction. ## See Also - [[Palantir]] - [[ChapsVision]] - [[Purge Palantir]] - [[Palantir Contracts]] - [[Palantir v. Republik (Zurich)]] - [[Palantir Watch Log]] - [[Palantir Events]]