The European Commission presented, on Tuesday 8 February, a strategy for empowering the EU in the field of electronic chips, or semi-conductors, which is divided into two parts: in the short term to respond to the urgency of current shortages, then in the medium and long term to consolidate the European industrial fabric and help it gain a share of the world market. Although the sums involved are colossal, little “fresh” money is injected at European level: it is mainly a question of...