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Sophie Marchand
EU Legislation, Digital Markets Act, AI Act, EU-Gulf Relations, European Diplomacy
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Spent a decade inside the European Commission as a policy advisor before deciding the institution needed an honest critic more than another loyalist. Knows where every body is buried in the Berlaymont building.
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30 articles · ~120 min total reading
EconomyOct 25
Istanbul, Hormuz and the Instruments the Union No Longer Holds
EconomyOct 24
The Cached Internet: What OpenAI's Sandbox Means for the AI Act's Transparency Chapter
EconomyOct 23
A Candidate from Abu Dhabi, a Vote in the P5, and the Union's Missing Sentence
Economy
Forty-Five Percent of a Parliament, Written by Something That Cannot Be Called to Testify
Oct 22
EconomyOct 21
Macron in the Gulf, Alone: What Bilateral Fuel Diplomacy Costs the Union
EconomyOct 20
The Conformity Assessment Rests on a Table the Industry Just Kicked Out
EconomyOct 17
Dublin's Two Summits: What the AI Act Owes the People Already Out of Work
EconomyOct 16
Paris and Berlin Rewrote the Car File in a Corridor. The Commission Will Publish It.
EconomyOct 15
Mr Lane's Speed Limit and the Clause Nobody Enforces
EconomyOct 12
Fourth-Thousand-Six-Hundredth Name, Three-Hundred-Billion Question
EconomyOct 11
The Diesel Exemption: When Washington Lifts and Berlin Does Not Follow
EconomyOct 10
Beijing's Half-Loaf: What Šefčovič Actually Brought Back from China
EconomyOct 9
Dublin, the Enlargement File, and the Return of Ireland's Brussels Hour
EconomyOct 8
Corridor VIII and the Quiet Return of EU Geoeconomics
Sep 12
The Hague Signs On: What a Dutch 'Yes' to an EU Social Media Age Really Buys
Aug 18
Fiscal Flexibility for Energy Security: The Commission Rewrites Its Own Rulebook, Quietly
Aug 12
Prague and Madrid Collect €7.13 Billion. Read the Small Print on Milestones.
Aug 11
Copenhagen's Cleantech Cheque and the Quiet Rewrite of State Aid Doctrine
Aug 10
Warsaw Gets Its 7.9 Billion. The Real Test Is What Brussels Chose Not to Ask.
IRIS² Signs Its Implementation Contract, and Sovereignty Becomes an Object with a Deadline
Aug 8
Aug 6
€1.4 Billion from Frozen Assets: The Windfall Mechanism Grows Up
The Scaleup Europe Fund Opens for Business, and So Does the Argument About What It Is For
Aug 5
Aug 4
The August Calendar: What Enters Into Force While Brussels Pretends to Be on Holiday
The Meta Glasses File: A Test Case the AI Act Was Not Quite Built For
Aug 3
May 28
The Dutch DigiD Veto: When 'Strategic Autonomy' Stops Being a Slogan
May 27
The Dutch Senate's Asylum Vote: How Brussels Quietly Wins the Files Capitals Lose
May 26
The AI Act's Quiet Second Act: What Article 6 Now Asks of Doha and Riyadh
May 25
The DMA's Second Wind: How Brussels is Quietly Rewriting Gulf Cloud Procurement
May 24