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Where political decision meets European regulation.
From Brussels, I help companies, federations and institutions anticipate European digital regulation — and make their position heard.
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Latest publication — 6 November 2026
What's up in America 01 — Four facts from the week of 2 November 2026
First instalment of a chronicle of American news read from Brussels. In this new column I propose to return each week to the major facts of public life that have marked the United States, read through the lens of institutional analysis. The format rests on a simple principle: each instalment will select a few facts that have marked the American media. Starting from first-hand sources, I will try, as faithfully as I can, to give an account of events and of their effects — not so much on public opinion as on the distribution of powers.
What a correction would not correct: the AI bubble and European dependence
The debate about an artificial-intelligence bubble is also conducted through ratios, this time financial ones. This contribution does not try to establish whether the correction will come. It asks what a correction would change for Europe, and argues that a downturn would tighten European dependence rather than loosen it: because insolvency does not dissolve infrastructure, it transfers it; because Europe's own instruments rest on a timetable that assumes the cycle continues; and because legal exposure does not depend on asset prices.
Sovereignty is not a market share: Europe, artificial intelligence and the jurisdictional question
The debate on "sovereign AI" is conducted through ratios: shares of semiconductor production, data centre capacity, the cloud computing market. The interruption, in June 2026, of European access to two American models is explained by none of these figures. It proceeds from a legal requalification, access through an application programming interface being treated as an export. This contribution argues that the decisive variable is neither ownership nor location, but jurisdictional attachment and the reversibility of dependencies.
WAEMU's excellence scholarships: a policy of belonging
The 2026-2029 call for the WAEMU excellence scholarship programme closed on 30 August. Eighty laureates, modest amounts, one decisive condition: study within the Union. This analysis reads a small programme as a large question — that of integration through belonging, in the mirror of Erasmus: can a regional community be made through the university, and at what scale does a symbol become a policy?
What restoring means - The European rule of law after the Hungarian alternation
By 31 August 2026, Hungary's Magyar government must have delivered proof of the "super-milestones" agreed with the European Commission for the release of 16.4 billion euros: judicial independence, anti-corruption safeguards, public procurement. At the same moment, Donald Tusk's Poland, engaged in the same enterprise since December 2023, remains blocked by presidential veto. These two simultaneous restorations — one equipped with a constitutional majority, the other deprived of any means of acting through statute — form a natural experiment such as European law has never possessed. We draw from it a question the treaties never anticipated: does undoing a legal capture of the state require using the very instruments of capture, and under what conditions does that enterprise remain a restoration rather than a revenge? The answer engages less Hungary and Poland than the credibility of the European instruments that claim to measure both.
Low-cost authoritarianism - What the Argentine case teaches about AI surveillance
The report published by Amnesty International on 18 August 2026 documents the expansion of mass surveillance technologies in Argentina: 1.2 million dollars of acquisitions between 2024 and 2025, an artificial intelligence unit tasked with "predicting" disturbances, journalists and pensioners who self-censor. This contribution argues that the analytical interest of the case lies neither in its scale, which is modest, nor in its exoticism, which is non-existent: it lies in its procedure. Argentina's surveillance infrastructure was instituted not by emergency legislation but by ministerial resolutions, without parliamentary passage, at a cost below that of a roundabout. The case thus displays three displacements — from statute to regulation, from investigation to patrol, from event to infrastructure — none of which is specific to Argentina, and against which Europe is protected only by procedural safeguards it is itself currently testing.
Section 301 against the DMA: when a trade instrument targets the competence to legislate
In brief — On 23 July, the European Commission fined Google €890 million for two breaches of the Digital Markets Act, with sixty days to comply. The following day, the US President announced a Section 301 investigation. One clarification is needed: to date, no formal initiation of an investigation targeting the DMA has been published. But the announcement, read alongside the visa restrictions imposed in December on five Europeans, traces a shift that should be named — from litigation over the effect of a measure to contestation of the competence to adopt it.
Two regimes for the same companies - Washington, Brussels and the regulation of frontier models
At the turn of August 2026, three consecutive days displayed two opposing ways of governing the same five companies. On 1 August, the deadline set by US Executive Order 14409 expired without any public deliverable. On 2 August, the European AI Office acquired its full powers of sanction over providers of general-purpose AI models. On 4 August, the White House convened Meta, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic around a voluntary review framework. This contribution compares the two trajectories along three axes — the criterion that designates the companies concerned, the legal form of the constraint, and the level at which it is exercised — and argues that they are not answering the same question.
What I do
Three offers, named deliverables.
Regulatory monitoring & analysis
Following a European file for you — text, calendar, actors — and telling you what changes when it changes.
- Dated, sourced analysis note, uncertainties flagged
- Obligations timeline kept up to date
- Reasoned alert at every calendar move
Strategic advice & public affairs
Framing a file, building a position, carrying it at the right moment of the procedure, to the right interlocutors.
- File mapping: procedure, deadlines, entry points
- A written position, defensible article by article
- Preparation for hearings or public consultations
Training
Bringing your teams up to speed on European digital regulation — on the texts, without needless jargon.
- Half-day: the AI literacy obligation (Art. 4)
- Panorama of European digital compliance
- Framing session for executive committees
And on sector-specific files
- Internal market
- Health
- Industry
- Funding & grants support
Approach
Understand the text, know the channels, turn it into a decision.
A practice guided by depth of analysis, rigour and intellectual honesty.
Read the text and the context
Translating dense regulatory files into clear obligations, without over-interpretation.
Know the channels
Knowing where and how a file is decided — in Brussels as at national level.
Stay independent
No overselling, no conflict of interest, transparency of mandates. The only product is judgement.
Mission
From Brussels, at the scale of the Union.
Files decided in Brussels and felt well beyond: thinking at the scale of the continent, acting as close as possible to the decision.
What builds trust
Independence
Transparency of mandates, registration in the EU Transparency Register where the assignment requires it.
Education
Four master’s degrees (ULB, Université Saint-Louis) and an ongoing PhD at the VUB on AI regulation.
Anchoring
In daily contact with the channels where European decisions are prepared.
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