On Monday 6 January, French President, Emmanuel Macron, announced his intention to convene a meeting of his European counterparts in Paris to draw up, “as early as March”, “a strategy” to enable the European Union to respond to geopolitical, security and economic challenges.
“Why should Europe be the breeding ground for talent going to work in California, the savings bank for foreign stock exchanges, when we are the continent with the most savings and China’s end market? It’s...