Emmanuel Macron

💡3 debates to keep an eye on for the future of the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework Last week, I came across the interview of Commissioner for Budget Johannes Hahn in the French newspaper Les Échos. EU correspondent Karl De Meyer captured 3 of the leading budget topics to keep an eye on in the answers of the Commissioner: 1️⃣ New own resources and repayment of the debt In the last MFF negotiations, the idea of creating new resources independent from national contributions had progressed. But despite the efforts of setting some of those resources, such as the flagship Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM, a carbon tax at the EU’s external border), the Council remains somewhat sceptical. As part of the Next Generation EU efforts deployed for the recovery from COVID-19, it was made possible for the Union to borrow €806,9 billion between 2021 and 2026. With repayment starting in 2028, the question is whether new resources will be unlocked on time or whether national contributions will remain the only conceivable option. 2️⃣ Flexibility of the Multiannual Financial Framework As outlined by Commissioner Hahn, 99% of EU resources are pre-allocated within the EU. Consequence: in the last two mandates, we have faced occurrences that made changes vital, whether it is the migration crisis, a global pandemic or a war at our borders - and those changes have been challenging to decide and implement in our institutional scheme. While there are already flexibility instruments in the MFF, i.e., adaptations of headings and programme implementation, the use of margins, a more in-depth reflection will undoubtedly be needed moving on. Otherwise, we will keep displacing capacity from one heading to another, one programme to another, with the risk that policies such as the Cohesion Policy, the Common Agricultural Policy or even the Erasmus programme are first in line to contribute. 3️⃣ Integration of new EU Member States Since December 2022, the question has been on every discussion, at least for those working on agricultural policy: when will new Member States, particularly Ukraine, join the EU - and what will be the consequences for the budget? According to the Commissioner, should the nine current candidate countries enter the EU, our budget would see an increase comprised between 20% and 30%. Making this whole debate about budget, however, would be wrong. Implications of integration have always reached far beyond financial contributions, as the celebration of the 20th EU anniversary of ten of our Member States has shown on 1st May. The interview of Commissioner Hahn is available below. ⤵️

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Let us shape the future of the cold chain logistics in Nice on October 10-11 for the benefit of all European consumers and for the future generations.

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Last week, Magnus Mähring contributed to an enriching panel discussion on innovation challenges at the European defense executive program #SERA35. He spoke about policy challenges for technology-driven innovation in Sweden and Europe, in particular: (1) the often unseen risks of restricting technology, (2) the need to focus also on value creation through technology in policymaking, and (3) the importance of building knowledge and capabilities for multi-actor collaborations to better address grand challenges and other complex societal problems. #Innovation #Leadership #Entrepreneurship #SERA #Defense #Digitalization

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🔎 An important piece on the road to digital semiosis described by François-Xavier de Vaujany in his book: the birth of information theory. Listen to this sharp, demanding conference (in French) by Alain Chanciner: https://lnkd.in/ePutAeV5 Sub-titles available in English #TheRiseofDigitalManagement #Apocalypsemanagériale #InformationTheory #Entropy École normale supérieure Routledge Business & Economics

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The French government has published two long-awaited documents ("Programmation pluriannuelle de l'énergie" and "Stratégie nationale bas carbone") setting out France's energy and climate goals to 2035, although targets are largely unchanged from previous plans. The new energy roadmap targets near a doubling of renewable energy capacity and a 12.5% increase to 360 TWh in annual atomic output, by 2030, in line with an energy strategy published last year. The ministry said it would issue decrees for the targets next year, following a public consultation. The government aims for renewable capacity to reach around 120 GW by 2030 and 160-90 GW by 2035, compared with 68.8 GW currently, according to TSO data. This means doubling annual solar deployment levels to 7 GW/year and keeping onshore deployment at 1.5 GW/year, while “ensuring a more balanced distribution of installations across the country”. The roadmap targets solar capacity of 54-60 GW by 2030 and 75-100 GW by 2035. For onshore wind, it eyes 33-35 GW by 2030 and 40-45 by 2035, with 28.5 GW of hydropower capacity by 2035, an increase of 2.8 GW from now. It calls for a “faster allocation of offshore wind capacity”, in line with the launch of a 8-10 GW offshore wind tender by the French energy ministry last month, meant to help achieve 45 GW of installed capacity by 2035. France had initially planned to pass an energy and climate bill in July last year and then publish a decree setting out targets for the next 10 years. However, previous governments shelved the plans due to parliamentary opposition.  Link to the story: https://lnkd.in/eu5a7NAd Article en français : https://lnkd.in/eGG65cvU

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Good sharing Portail de l'Intelligence Économique . The recent seizure of 32 Russian-controlled websites by the US Department of Justice highlights the ongoing threat of foreign interference in democratic processes. With the 2024 US presidential election approaching, the Biden administration's actions underscore the gravity of Russia's persistent efforts to manipulate American public opinion through disinformation campaigns. Russian PsyOps frequently employ disinformation campaigns, or "dezinformatsiya," to spread false or misleading information. It is a consistent part of its hybrid warfare. This is not new; such tactics have been part of many states' arsenals throughout history. The Soviet Union, for example, employed so called "active measures" (активные мероприятия) like subversion. Notable cases include blaming Nazi Germany for the 1940 Katyn Massacre and Operation INFEKTION, a KGB campaign falsely claiming that the United States created HIV/AIDS as a biological weapon - by then, with a substantial impact in many African nations. "Information warfare" (информационная война), is a key element of Russia's broader military and strategic doctrine. Russia’s Psyops in Europe, particularly targeting Germany and France, pursue to fracture European unity, destabilize international support for sanctions on Russia and stress any gap or fissure that may legitimize the recurrent concept of the "Decline of the West": https://lnkd.in/d4BThMBu #HybridWarfare #Disinformation #CyberSecurity #ElectionIntegrity #GlobalSecurity #USRussiaRelations #DigitalInfluence #ProtectDemocracy #JoseParejoAndAssociates #PsyOps

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What's wrong with a few companies concentrating all our data and the IT services of companies and public administrations? Digital geopolitics researcher Ophélie Coelho, explores this highly strategic issue with Grégoire Barbey, cyber journalist at Le Temps : https://lnkd.in/e_A_piPN

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Today at the invitation of Lars-Hendrik Röller, President Emmanuel Macron attended the Berlin global dialogue, focusing on EU Competitiveness, building on his speech at the Sorbonne last April, on the Letta and Draghi reports and on the German-French contribution for Growth adopted in Meseberg in May, largely reflected in the new European Commission policy guidelines for the next five years. Time for the EU to deliver its own agenda! From President Macron’s « Europe can die » to Mario Draghi’s risk of a « slow agony », Europe’s growth and social model is at risk, even after strong and united EU responses to the Covid pandemic and to the Russian agression in Ukraine. The EU is lagging behind the US and China. It needs to reshape its growth model, invest and deliver more, particularly on climate change, AI, defence industry, to be more competitive. Five steps will be crucial : 1) The EU needs a simplification shock with its regulations, as it faces the risk of a technological desynchronisation with the US and China, to keep its attractiveness and deepen its Single Market in key sectors (energy, telcos, financial services). 2) The EU should use its instruments to enforce and restore a level playing field in trade relations with competitors, as they do not follow WTO rules anymore. Not to become protectionists: just to be fair to EU companies, industries, farmers, as they face Chinese overcapacities and subsidies as well as the impacts of the American IRA. The EU shouldn’t be naively continuing to play by the book and ignoring it has become an adjustment factor for international players. 3) The EU needs to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 with an industrial base. We need to deliver on a Clean Industrial Deal, building on energy autonomy and based on technological neutrality (net zero industry Act, Carbon border adjustment mechanism, etc.). 4) The EU needs to deliver an industrial strategy on key sectors identified in the Versailles Summit and the German-French contribution in Meserg so as to keep the technological edge, reduce dependencies and strengthen its resilience and sovereignty: IA, quantum computing, energy, biotechs/healthcare, defence, semiconductors, etc. We need to help EU players to innovate and scale up. 5) The EU needs to invest much more in these key sectors, mobilising both public and private support. As the EU budget is not sufficient, the EU also needs to build on innovative ways that have increased its investment capacity, such as the Juncker Plan and then the first common borrowing capacity for with NextGenerationEU. The EU also needs to mobilise private money, to channel the abundant European savings so that they stay in Europe to support the clean and digital transitions as well as the European defence technological and industrial base. This means more investments in equity and achieving the capital markets union. Time for an efficient EU to rush to deliver on this agenda!

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Some fresh #sharedmobility and #micromobility news: 👩‍⚖️ The fight between Reby and SOL Global Investments's House of Lithium is not over. Reminder: HOL acquired Reby for $100m in may 2022, but stopped the deal before completion. Reby is now trying to force the deal at the Delaware Chancery Court. https://lnkd.in/dxJjGb8j 🅿 Scooters are doing well in Chile. Municipalidad de Temuco is planning to implement 150 parking spots to improve the operation, in collaboration with Whoosh. 📈 Interesting insights from Urban Sharing's Tom Nutley about tenders' KPI impact for shared mobility. https://lnkd.in/en_tRgMt 🚲 Communauté d'Agglomération Villefranche Beaujolais Saône will get its #bikeshare service in 2025 with around 30 stations. THe local authority is working on financing the project. https://lnkd.in/dHt3uuA3

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💥New investment – Industry 4.0💥 🎉 The Bpifrance French Tech Accélération team is delighted to announce its participation in the €8.5M fundraising of OSS Ventures, an #Industry40 #startupstudio, alongside Tikehau Capital and Etablissements Peugeot Frères. 🚀 OSS Ventures is the leading studio specializing in software for operations. Its mission is to help factories digitalize, become more efficient, and reduce their environmental impact. ⭐Since its establishment in 2019, the studio has demonstrated a strong track record: - Created more than 15 #startups. - OSS Ventures, one of Europe's most successful digital studios, generates over €25M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) from its startups. - The solutions are deployed at nearly 2 000 industrial sites. - OSS has also created a community: a network of industrial partners, industry operations managers and sector experts. 🔍OSS Ventures aims to identify the operational problems encountered by blue-collar workers and operators, and to map out the areas where digital technology can help. The company’s strength lies in co-constructing startups with manufacturers. 💡 They have created various companies, such as fabriq, a software for digital problem-solving in factories, and MyC, a solution for health management in complex environments (ships, oil rigs, mining, etc.). 🚀 With this latest round of financing, OSS Ventures has raised a total of €11M. This funding will enable the studio to scale up its model and create 5 startups per year. 🏆 The startup studio is an operational company, which relies on its 20-member team, with expertise in IT development, design, marketing and sales, operations, and communications. 👉 Find out more: press release link in comments Renan Devillieres Pierre Lavaux Aurore Lanchart Jean-Philippe Lorinquer Quentin Dubois Maroussia Houimli Pierre GILLET Océane Fleury Bpifrance #France2030 #Manufacturing #Innovation #DigitalTransformation

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Thanks so much for sharing Serge Zaka. This is incredibly powerful information! 🌍 Embracing Sustainable Real Estate: Addressing the Impact of Global Warming 🏢 June 12, 2024, where we've just experienced the hottest June day on record. The built environment, including real estate, accounts for 40% of global emissions. As average temperatures rise and extreme heat becomes more frequent, our HVAC systems strain to keep up. This not only increases energy consumption but also escalates emissions—a concerning exponential impact. At BFY Carbon Strategies, we're dedicated to leading the charge in decarbonising real estate. From optimising HVAC systems to integrating renewable energy sources, we're paving the way towards a net-zero carbon future. Join us in reshaping the real estate landscape for a sustainable tomorrow. Let's turn the tide on climate change and ensure our buildings are resilient to the challenges ahead. #BFYCarbonStrategies #SustainableRealEstate #ClimateAction #NetZeroCarbon #BuildingResilience #GlobalWarming

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#Paris2024 - What's love got to do with it? The Olympic games have started with a spectacularly queer opening ceremony in Paris, orchestrated by the artistic director Thomas Jolly. It has been an attempt to narrate France's history as one that, by many fights, lead to progress, equal rights (women, LGBTQ and black people), and the culturual richness of diversity. It was a beautiful representation of the diversity of art forms, the diversity of French society, and the "Olympic spirit" of bringing people around the world peacefully together - with sports as a force that can bring out our best. The controversy of the parody on the last supper by drag queens, as well as the omittance of France's other dark sides of history besides the revolution (colonialism - the reason why nation-states are actually represented in Paris; and fascism) however leaves me with a strange after-taste. While art should always remain free, even to provoke, I think that Jolly's goal for "everybody to feel represented" has failed. The Christian church has doubtlessly created endless suffering, including to LGBTQ people. But turning that hate now around by mocking Christians is for me undigested trauma. The Western LGBTQ identity has been one of otherness, a mostly "negative" identity stemming from discrimination - and this may also be its major problem today. Just like Christians, theoretically at least, the LGBTIQ movement is about love. How much love do we however practice if, from whatever side, we nurture hate, exclusion, and ignorance of others' perspectives, as uncomfortable as they may be? Paradoxcially perhaps, both the #LGBTIQ movement and Christian religion seem to be at a turning point. In a world full of hate, and where their narratives face starch resistance, they may both have a need to go back to the sources of the wisdoms they could hold. How can we create spaces in which such perspectives can actually communicate to be truly inclusive? And what story of coming to peace would we write if it was really made with love? "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3 #LGBT #Christianism #Communications

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[ 🚨 PSSD-IELM SEMINAR - MAY 27TH 🚨 ] 📆 On Monday, the #PSSD-#IELM Research Seminar will welcome Isabelle Mejean, from Sciences Po. 🖥 Isabelle Mejean will present a talk on "#Carbon #Border #Adjustments at the Extensive Margin" (with P. Coster and J. di Giovanni). 📍 The research #seminar will take place at 11:00am (Paris time), in the 6th floor room of Maison des Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and will also be held online by Zoom. 👨‍🏫 Isabelle Mejean is Professor at the Sciences Po economics department. 🔍 Her #research interests are in #InternationalMacroeconomics and #Trade 📜 Abstract: A prevailing consensus among economists asserts that establishing a sufficiently high carbon price serves as a fundamental pillar for tackling climate change, and that this pricing should be implemented on a global scale to prevent carbon leakage. In this paper, we model firms' import decisions of dirty and clean intermediate inputs, and ask how those decisions are altered by carbon price policies. We first use a triple difference strategy to show that French firms' propensity to import dirty inputs from outside of the EU has increased in the 2010s, when ETS was getting more binding. Second, we develop a model of import sourcing displaying clean and dirty inputs, origin-specific fixed costs of importing and country-specific carbon policies. The model is estimated on pre-ETS data. We then use the estimated model to run counterfactuals mimicking the current ETS system, covering production in the European Union, and an ETS system augmented with a carbon border adjustment that expands carbon taxation to non-European productions. We show that the unilateral policy can reproduce the level of carbon leakage observed in the data while CBAM neutralize this source of carbon leakage. 👉 Isabelle's website: https://lnkd.in/eyZidH39 👉 PSSD-IELM website: https://cutt.ly/JwzsG4SG 👉 Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gazSW7g7

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Nous sommes fiers de vous annoncer que notre revue URBAN ART BIO est signataire de la déclaration DORA. https://lnkd.in/dSedaGcm San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment There is a pressing need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties.To address this issue, a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals met during the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco, CA, on December 16, 2012. The group developed a set of recommendations, referred to as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. We invite interested parties across all scientific disciplines to indicate their support by adding their names to this Declaration. The outputs from scientific research are many and varied, including: research articles reporting new knowledge, data, reagents, and software; intellectual property; and highly trained young scientists. Funding agencies, institutions that employ scientists, and scientists themselves, all have a desire, and need, to assess the quality and impact of scientific outputs. It is thus imperative that scientific output is measured accurately and evaluated wisely. The Journal Impact Factor is frequently used as the primary parameter with which to compare the scientific output of individuals and institutions. The Journal Impact Factor, as calculated by Thomson Reuters*, was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase, not as a measure of the scientific quality of research in an article. With that in mind, it is critical to understand that the Journal Impact Factor has a number of well-documented deficiencies as a tool for research assessment. These limitations include: A) citation distributions within journals are highly skewed [1–3]; B) the properties of the Journal Impact Factor are field-specific: it is a composite of multiple, highly diverse article types, including primary research papers and reviews [1, 4]; C) Journal Impact Factors can be manipulated (or “gamed”) by editorial policy [5]; and D) data used to calculate the Journal Impact Factors are neither transparent nor openly available to the public [4, 6, 7]. Below we make a number of recommendations for improving the way in which the quality of research output is evaluated. Outputs other than research articles will grow in importance in assessing research effectiveness in the future, but the peer-reviewed research paper will remain a central research output that informs research assessment.

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[ J&Actu ] The AI Act has just been published. Update your calendar with the key dates!   At Joffe & Associés, our AI department remains available to assist you for the deployment of your AI project. #IA #IntelligenceArtificielle #ArtificialIntelligence #IAAct

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🟦 BETTING ON INSTABILITY? 🟥 On the evening and the day after the first round of the legislative elections, the "Nouveau Front Populaire" (NFP) cannot envisage an absolute majority and a fortiori the "Ensemble" movement, the figurehead of an ex-"majority", whether alone or with others. In the absence of a clear majority, the latter movement would find itself in the National Assembly in a new configuration of relative majority, but in a clearly diminished position and subject to the left, including the most extreme. Consequently, to declare that the main objective is to prevent the "Rassemblement National"(RN) from obtaining an absolute majority of seats at all costs (NB: is this also the position of "Horizons" or the Parti "Les Républicains" ?) is, in practice, to bet on the instability of the country. The objective of blocking the Rassemblement National at all costs - failing a cohabitation with the latter, however conflictual - could end up forcing the President of the Republic to resign and call an early presidential election. This is what Marine Le Pen had indicated in recent days, while making it clear that she was not formally calling for this, but that it could prove to be the only political outcome. In the immediate term, her party might find it advantageous, in the run-up to the second round of legislative elections and beyond, to develop the argument of the risk of instability with voters. Leaving aside a priori a possible resignation, would the only realistic ultimate objective of a clearly diminished President of the Republic be a negative one (unless one imagines that the left could still be beneficial to the country and truly believes in the concept of a "Republican Front")? Would volatility and instability be preferable to cohabitation? Would destruction be creative, as some economists think? Or is it more a question, in the end, of doing harm above all else in the name of saving face? ► 🔴L’Essentiel de l’Éco🔴 (01/07/2024

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🎥 Last Friday, I had the honor of being invited to the BFM Business morning show to discuss women's cancers and Primaa’s vision for the future of AI in the medical field. Beyond just sharing Primaa’s latest developments, I highlighted our core convictions about how AI can revolutionize healthcare, and particularly pathology: 1️⃣ Relieving overburdened medical services, helping them process more cases with greater speed and efficiency 2️⃣ Reducing inter-observer variability, which can impact patient treatment, ensuring more consistent diagnoses 3️⃣ Disseminating world-class expertise and excellence in care to all regions, ensuring equal access to advanced medical diagnostics 🔴 At a time when budget cuts are being rolled out with the implementation of the new fiscal plan, it's crucial to remember how deeptech startups, especially in the medical field, have thrived thanks to the supportive ecosystem. Some of the proposed measures, such as the elimination of young innovative company (JEI) exemptions and the discontinuation of the innovation tax credit (CII), risk stalling the progress of these crucial innovations... 🔗 Watch the full interview here ➡️: https://lnkd.in/ekAJXjeS #BFMBusiness #Primaa #AI #FannySockeel #WomensHealth #DeepTech #CleoBreast #Pathology #HealthcareInnovation #AIinMedicine #digitalpathology #frenchtech Paul Midy

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