Executive Summary   Over the course of summer 2025, the European Union (EU) engaged in negotiations with the United States (U.S.) to reach an agreement aimed at preventing a trade escalation. The resulting agreement, formalized in a Joint Statement on August 21st, involved a number of trade concessions by the

In light of this summer’s discussions and political positions taken, Prime Minister François Bayrou has acknowledged the virtual impossibility of his government surviving the debate in Parliament on budget bills this fall. He has therefore taken the initiative to set the timetable and will likely “leave before being pushed out.”

At a time when generative artificial intelligence is making lightning-fast inroads, the report on “Public services at the test of artificial intelligence”, which came out on July 3rd past, proposes a collective, cross-disciplinary reflection on the conditions for a responsible, controlled, and democratic use of AI in public services. The

In an opinion piece published in May 2025 in the public sector-focused publication Zepros Territorial, Anca Caruntu and Julie Quatresols weigh in on the proposed “Resilience” Bill, aimed at stepping up cybersecurity in France through the transposition of three major EU directives: NIS2 (network security), CER (critical entities resilience) and

In an article published in Zepros Territorial, the number one news source for local authorities, Thaima Samman and Sabina Lindstedt look back at the findings of a study of regional HR policies promoting gender equality in the workplace conducted by the association Régions de France and Eurogroup Consulting and released

A week in Washington: Don’t look for a plan B, who knows if there was ever a plan A…   Spending the week from April 7th to 11th in Washington DC meant taking part in the epochal transformation of the world order that began with Donald Trump’s return to the

Executive Summary   EU’s Strategic Priorities amid Transatlantic Trade and Security Tensions The EU’s key priority is to manage the eroding transatlantic relationship while preserving its security interests — particularly in response to the ongoing threat from Russia. At the same time, the EU must guard against becoming a dumping

Two years ago, ChatGPT was virtually unknown. Generative AI became an instant hit. Today, two out of three French people use chatbot-type conversational agents. Just as businesses rushed to embrace the Internet 30 years ago, companies are jumping headlong into the AI race to stay ahead. While six in ten