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Bloomberg
4 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Let Them Eat Tariffs Is New Corporate Mantra in France
Bonjour et Bienvenue to the Paris Edition. I'm Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lionel Laurent. If you haven't yet, subscribe now to the Paris Edition newsletter. French business executives are days away from facing up to the final number of what is politely known in the lexicon as an 'asymmetric' trade agreement: The new tariff rate that will be imposed by the Trump administration on European goods, from plane engines to cars to wines, without a response in kind going the other way. Considering the US's recent hardball threats of as much as 30%, the mood in Paris is curiously calm.
Bloomberg
11-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Small Boats and Big Nukes Dominate Macron's UK Visit
Bonjour et Bienvenue to the Paris Edition. I'm Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lionel Laurent. If you haven't yet, subscribe now to the Paris Edition newsletter. The Franco-British relationship is better than it used to be during the bitter saga of Brexit, when Paris and London traded blows over trade, fish and finance – and when the UK couldn't even decide publicly whether France was friend or foe. Yet even as geopolitics presses the two countries closer, some scars will take a long time to heal.
Bloomberg
04-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Mistral's Home Base France Is Lagging in AI Adoption
Bonjour et Bienvenue to the Paris Edition. I'm Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lionel Laurent. If you haven't yet, subscribe now to the Paris Edition newsletter. Riding the artificial intelligence wave has become a geopolitical and economic imperative for France, an ageing society in dire need of productivity gains.
Bloomberg
13-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Paris Air Show Braces for Cloudier Skies
Bonjour et Bienvenue to the Paris Edition. I'm Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lionel Laurent. If you haven't yet, subscribe now to the Paris Edition newsletter. The Paris Air Show has long been the place to showcase record-breaking airplane orders, argue about who's up or down in the race between Airbus and Boeing and network with peers in swanky corporate chalets. The 2023 show saw mammoth orders from resurgent post pandemic airlines.
Bloomberg
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Macron Is Mulling a Risky Choice for a Divided Electorate
By Updated on Save Bonjour et Bienvenue to the Paris Edition. I'm Bloomberg Opinion columnist Lionel Laurent. If you haven't yet, subscribe now to the Paris Edition newsletter. It's been a week of political shocks for Poland and the Netherlands, where uneasy coalitions are being pulled apart in a time of Trumpian politics and weaker economic growth. In France, by contrast, things are looking relatively calm despite a clearly divided electorate. Which begs the question: Why is Emmanuel Macron's administration considering changing how elections work?
