> Anyway, the first goal listed in this project was to move to European sovereign solutions so Zulip failed at the first hurdle.
Element Creations Ltd and The Matrix.org Foundation CIC are UK companies.
The UK is in Europe. Brexit didn't float the country out several hundred miles.
Element Software SARL and Element Software GmbH however are not. In practice I believe it's Element Software GmbH providing the European Commission deployment of ESS. (Both are owned by the UK topco, but at the current rate we might flip one of them to be the topco instead).