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N°08 Digital Sovereignty
Default to Europe

Euro-Office just shipped. Europe can celebrate it. Now write the rules that make it win.

N°06 Artificial Intelligence
Europe Legislated. China Built.

The EU AI Act was the right instinct and the wrong strategy. Europe regulated before it built, did it alone, and is now surprised to find the rules aren't working.

N°05 European Politics
Borrowed Armies, Borrowed Minds

For decades Europe delegated its defense to Washington and, quietly, its judgment too. Ukraine is the cost of the first failure. Our confusion about China is the cost of the second.

N°04 European Politics
United or Irrelevant

The case for deeper European integration has nothing to do with ideology. It is a structural response to a world that has stopped waiting for Europeans to make up their minds.

N°03 Artificial Intelligence
The AI Factory Problem

The EU is building 19 AI factories across 16 member states. The instinct is correct. The architecture is a disaster.

N°02 European Politics
Merz

Friedrich Merz speaks about power differently than his predecessors. Rhetoric is the precondition, not the achievement. Six months in, the preconditions exist. The test comes next.

N°01 European Politics
The Shakedown

Liberation Day was not a trade policy. It was a demonstration - of what happens to countries that have no answer to economic coercion. Europe watched, got a 90-day reprieve it did not earn, and learned nothing.