Modern life runs on semiconductors — cars, phones, wind turbines, medical devices, and every military system now depends on chips that Europe, for the most part, does not make itself. The most advanced logic chips, the ones powering AI systems and cutting-edge computing, are produced almost entirely by a handful of facilities in Taiwan, with […]
With American competitiveness declining, the EU has a chance to offer tech start-ups something better. To create this new generation of EU Incs, the bloc will first need to better align its regulation and resources
This final essay is really the connecting thread running through every one before it. Energy diversification, mineral partnerships in Africa and South America, chip fab locations, food import sources — all of them are, at their core, expressions of a single underlying strategic instinct: don’t let any single country hold enough leverage over Europe to […]
Every other goal in this series depends on infrastructure that can, in principle, be attacked without a single soldier crossing a border. Power grids, hospitals, financial systems, and telecommunications networks have all been targeted by state-linked cyberattacks in recent years, and Europe has experienced this directly — Ukraine’s power grid was hit by Russian-linked attacks […]
Every other item in this series — chips, AI, energy, industry — ultimately depends on this one. Nuclear plants need engineers, chip fabs need materials scientists, AI labs need machine learning researchers, and none of it happens without a strong pipeline of talent and research feeding into it. Europe still produces excellent science: its universities […]
Artificial intelligence has become the layer underneath almost everything else — search, customer service, scientific research, defense planning. Yet the foundation models most of the world builds on come overwhelmingly from a small number of American companies, with Chinese labs close behind and rapidly closing the gap. European companies, hospitals, and governments increasingly run their […]
The US under Trump will seek new ways to coerce Europe economically. Here is how Europeans can resist the pressure and emerge stronger for it.