American tech companies won because offered their products globaly and often localized. Many European companies concentrate on their domestic market (or say german speaking, french speaking markets) and don’t really care about smaller markets of smaller european countries.

I hope Wero won’t go this way and become true paneuropean payment system.

Also simple 2D CAD Qcad - www.qcad.org and its spinoff LibreCAD - www.librecad.org .

Shetland is amazing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_(TV_series) ;

Now I watch Vigil - quite good too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigil_(TV_series) ;

Finnish TV series Exit is disturbingly good - https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_(suomalainen_televisiosarja) . Would like to watch norwegian original.

North sea connection is also great - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15654810/ ;

Cry wolf - very good, Fargo vibes on swedish-finnish border - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_Wolf_(TV_series) .

Yes.

Solidworks is american, only owned by Dassault.