Every ambition in this series — more chip fabs, nuclear plants, wind farms, factories, AI labs — ultimately runs into the same wall: someone has to build, operate, and maintain it, and Europe is short on exactly the people it needs most. Aging populations across much of the continent mean the workforce is shrinking even […]
Finance may be the least visible of Europe’s dependencies, but it is arguably the most structurally entrenched. The dollar dominates global trade invoicing and reserves; American card networks process the large majority of European card payments; European startups routinely have to cross the Atlantic to find late-stage venture funding; and European capital markets remain fragmented […]
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.