While there is no official mandate, many countries of the EU are working on models that are government funded.

The main one (IIRC) is Spains ALIA.

https://alia.gob.es/eng

There is also OpenEuroLLM and EuroLLM.

https://www.openeurollm.eu

Nah, they wouldn't have released deepseek open source if they were the case

Source?