• From Greenland to Ukraine, the Fracturing of the West

    From Greenland to Ukraine, the Fracturing of the West

    Interview with France Info radio on the EU/US breakup

  • After the Bubble: AI Can Serve Industrial Power Instead of Draining It

    After the Bubble: AI Can Serve Industrial Power Instead of Draining It

    This op-ed has originally been published by Les Echos. The generative AI bubble is built on circular funding between sector players, valuations disconnected from economic realities, and an extreme concentration of resources on…

  • Agricultural Crisis and EU-Mercosur Deal

    Agricultural Crisis and EU-Mercosur Deal

    A growing divide between those advocating for production, resilience and know-how, and a bureaucracy still mired in the limbo of the 1990s. The EU is rushing to finalize a trade deal with the…

  • Europe’s Trade Problem

    Europe’s Trade Problem

    I took part in Al Jazeera’s Inside Story discussion with Andy Mok and Ben Aris. Ailing European economies need to rebalance their trade relations with China and break out of their self-inflicted technological…

  • Competitiveness or Submission? Europe’s Dilemma

    Competitiveness or Submission? Europe’s Dilemma

    On Donald Trump’s orders, in exchange for unilateral tariffs of ‘just 15%’, the EU suddenly revises its digital regulations to open its market even wider to American Big Tech. But it’s all in…

  • Has Trump Killed Globalization?

    Has Trump Killed Globalization?

    A Fierce Struggle for Tech Dominance—Outside Europe. Le Débat du jour on Radio France Internationale, 5 November 2025

  • Rare Earths: China’s Nuclear Option

    Rare Earths: China’s Nuclear Option

    Donald Trump said after a summit in South Korea with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he had agreed to reduce tariffs on Chinese products to 47% in exchange for Beijing guaranteeing a…

  • French Debt: an Economic Impasse

    French Debt: an Economic Impasse

    I was on France 24 to discuss France’s political void and the toxic rhetoric about the IMF’s arrival—while the debt debate ignores the core issues: economic, technological, and educational challenges.Click the image to…

  • Europe is selling out its future to Trump

    Europe is selling out its future to Trump

    “I was on France Info TV yesterday discussing how, behind the threat of chaos, Trump is successfully pushing a new paradigm of unilateral tariff protection. While these tariffs are relatively modest, they come…

  • Trump is Forcing his Terms on his Vassals

    Trump is Forcing his Terms on his Vassals

    On France Info TV, discussing how Donald Trump is using tariff policy to assert economic and technological dominance over even his closest allies. Watch key excerpts, in French.

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