The Eurolinux Association has set up policies, that they advocate at various levels. osAlliance is supporting those policies, tries to implement them in various projects. Here we provide some important point, you may read  the full text and their FAQ here.

• Full-scale Linux migration of the Public sector: Europe has to shape the benefit from the Free and open source software development that takes place in Europe. Cities like Munich with their scattered approaches show the potential for Europe. Spending from the public sector should translate directly into job creation in Europe. If Europeans do not control the platform all public ICT spending is wasted. All software procured by the public sector ought to be licensed as free and open source software (FLOSS) to promote job creation, skills development and re-use in Europe.
• Mandatory "open standards": We need meaningful measures against a discrimination of competitors with dark standards. Mandatory promotion of "open standards" has to be accompanied by a set of corresponding fierce sanctions against the use of proprietary formats, that is conventions for the exchange of data which are not documented ("dark") or where interoperability is artificially restricted by patent claims.
• Abolition of soft patenting: Soft patenting has failed. It rewards trivial ideas of lawyers and stifles the creativity of software innovators. European legislators never endorsed software patentability. Soft patentability undermines competition and the freedom of the market. It is time to act and ban software patents. A ban on software patentability will strengthen the competitiveness of Europe as a location for software entrepreneurs and creative minds.
• Sustainable public investments in Linux development for the preservation of our digital liberties: We propose a one billion fund for the creation of a Eurolinux Operating System Distribution based on the existing Linux eco-system, and activities from the European public sector as a public private partnership. Europe has to advance the market migration toward a free information infrastructure..