In Focus
EU Breakup Risk and Productive Resilience
The U.S. administration criticizes the European Union for failings that often have real basis. However, the EU’s economic subordination to the United States and the…
AI Bubble and Military Bottleneck: A Systemic Crisis
The financial bets on the revolutionary promises of generative AI have soared to dizzying heights. Circular funding among industry giants is proliferating, while structural limitations…
Confronting Europe’s Vassalization: Resistance or Rhetoric
The level of subordination revealed by the agreement between Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump has sparked awareness of the European Union’s economic, technological,…
Behind DeepSeek: France’s Path to AI Excellence
By leveraging its mathematical expertise and open-source innovation, Europe can compete with the United States and China—not just through massive investments, but above all by…
Semiconductors Are the Achilles’ Heel of the AI Giants
The ultra-concentration in the design and production of semiconductors for AI, centred around Nvidia and TSMC, is fuelling the interest of digital giants, which are…
Mistral Under Microsoft: Europe’s AI Catch-Up Challenge Remains Unresolved
Mistral AI’s move into Microsoft’s sphere has sparked political criticism in Europe. As a champion of open source, the company had recently advocated for a…
In the Media
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Has Trump Killed Globalization?
A Fierce Struggle for Tech Dominance—Outside Europe. Le Débat du jour on Radio France Internationale, 5 November 2025