It's not an EU project, it's individual governments making long-term infrastructure decisions. Just like the French gov chose matrix for internal communication. Sadly there has been no national move to Linux as desktop OS for staff yet, but quite a few lower level initiatives. Those lower level ones obviously have less resources and more fluctuation, but shifting 300k federal employees to a new storage provider will not be a frequent decision.

NextCloud was an independent company well before it did anything government related.

The only thing that's happening here is they appear to have struck a huge contract with a few EU countries to build internal clouds.

I believe NextCloud is open source, and a fork of owncloud from the original owncloud developer who wasn't happy with the direction it was taking, or something like that. Also, they are a profitable company, and the product is open source, so this only looks like a boost to their business model and the open source product it's based on.

Ah, I see. Perhaps not as bad as first thought, then!

Nextcloud has been around since 2010 (insert boring digression about a fork here).

Dunno what your threshold for abandonment is, but that’s already a better shelf-life than most profit-driven startups.