European public affairs · Strategic advice · Governance
Where political decision meets European regulation.
I advise companies, federations and institutions on the political and regulatory dimensions of European affairs — from human rights to development cooperation, from digital and AI regulation to geopolitics. Based in Brussels, I help my clients anticipate the Union’s decisions and make their case within them.
Publications
Latest publications
Latest publication — 31 August 2026
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.
Brussels and the False Economy
On 31 July, the Brussels Region suspended, as of 12 August, several forms of business support — advice, training, recruitment, coworking — for lack of budget. The cut is defensible; its method, in twelve days and without consultation, far less so. A position piece on the penny-wise economy of cutting the cheapest and most useful lever.
Lethal autonomous weapons: can the decision to kill be entrusted to a machine?
A weapon that, once activated, selects and strikes its targets without any human validating the shot: this is no longer a laboratory hypothesis. Behind the term "lethal autonomous weapons systems" (LAWS) lies one of the most dizzying questions of contemporary law — and the deadline the UN had set itself to regulate them, 2026, has arrived.
Areas
My areas of work.
Advice on European files, across the areas that shape the Union’s major policies — from digital regulation to the rule of law, from internal affairs to external cooperation.
Digital & artificial intelligence
AI Act, GDPR, DORA, NIS2, DSA — the regulation of Europe’s digital sphere. My specialty.
Institutions & European public affairs
Legislative monitoring, positioning and dialogue with the Union’s institutions and national authorities.
Human rights & rule of law
The fundamental-rights dimension of European policies and files.
Geopolitics & diplomacy
Strategic reading: divergence of regimes, sovereignty, international relations.
Development cooperation
The Union’s aid and external-action policies, humanitarian aid, cooperation instruments.
Training, workshops & events
Bespoke sessions, workshops or conferences designed to meet specific needs.
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.
I analyse and handle files that are decided in Brussels and felt well beyond. My conviction: think at the scale of the continent, act as close as possible to the decision — with rigour, independence and honesty.
What builds trust
Independence
Independent advice, transparency of mandates, registration in the EU Transparency Register where the assignment requires it.
Multidisciplinary, continuing education
Four master’s degrees (ULB, Université Saint-Louis) and continuing education — FARI 2026, Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law.
Anchoring
Based in Brussels, in daily contact with the channels where European decisions are prepared.
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