EU leaders pleading with US and China not to dismantle free trade as Chinese EVs clog up European ports and US super-charges industrial policy sounds like something from the Angela Merkel days. Without change, the EU looks totally unready for Xi or Trump https://t.co/rcioNekciV

With today’s Arsene Lupins having their eye on shiny metals and not the Mona Lisa, the gold boom has made philistines of us all, writes @LionelRALaurent

The core planks of Emmanuel Macron's reform agenda are falling apart, writes @LionelRALaurent

In the future, everyone will be French Prime Minister for 15 minutes.

Europe can't afford to be mad at Musk's space leadership, says @LionelRALaurent. What it can do is get even

Air France-LLM? ASML's big bet on Mistral AI shows how Europe is carving its own path behind US and China. High-precision hardware offers use cases beyond consumer chatbots while fragmented markets make big firms logical anchor investors. The risk is FOMO.

France's political crisis is tied to the silent burden of a debt pile that constrains investment and a pension system stretched to the limit, writes @LionelRALaurent

White-collar populism is the latest test for Emmanuel Macron’s fading revolution, @LionelRALaurent writes

Newspaper cartoons in Switzerland @LeTemps Spain @elpais_inter and Italy @Corriere doing a better job than many at summing up the mood on the tariff front

If the developed world is turning against having more kids, nobody told the 0.0001%, writes @LionelRALaurent

"Maybe it isn’t Trump who always chickens out." The EU-US trade is a stark reminder of Europe's dependence, writes @LionelRALaurent

En cours de lecture, bientôt une chronique dans Les Echos. Un livre exceptionnel !!! sur un secteur dont on parle trop peu et qui joue un rôle central dans l'histoire du monde

La venganza de Europa se sirve fría Por @VictorLapuente https://t.co/cRejaFxYkl

Japan and the EU have much in common - symbols of US-led post-war reconstruction, now forced to contemplate the prospect of life without Washington's security umbrella. Perhaps they can find solace in one another? My JV w/ @LionelRALaurent, free to read: https://t.co/nIQhekKaTO

The EU and Japan both fret about a world without the US security umbrella, write @LionelRALaurent and @GearoidReidy. They could ease their fears by moving closer together.

I wrote a new piece in foreign policy. The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over – and may even turn adversarial. But Europe has an overlooked trump card: when it comes to manufacturing Europe blows the US out of the water. 1/x https://t.co/mcgErYMuyr

The choice facing the EU is to ramp up military spending or let the union vanish into irrelevance, writes @LionelRALaurent

Europe has good reason to worry about the outcome of Trump-Putin talks, but it’s also stronger than it looks, writes @LionelRALaurent

French billionaire Xavier Niel on how to make an AI champion: Attract talent, provide funding & compute power, and create a user base by spreading the tech through business and the economy. It’s all part of a Paris ecosystem aspiring to do more with less https://t.co/kpSY5fbR3V

Against long odds, French telecoms billionaire is fighting the prospect of Europe being left behind in AI, writes @LionelRALaurent

With Emmanuel Macron announcing €109 bln of AI investments in France and a wave of corporate and strategic partnerships, the big catch-up opportunity for Europe in a race dominated by U.S. and China is to win the long game: Adopting and diffusing the technology in its economy