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Digital trade: who sets the rules in the absence of a global agreement?
The Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization is the summit that periodically brings together the trade ministers of member countries and represents the institution’s highest decision-making body. The latest took place at the end of March in Yaoundé, in Cameroon, and marked something more than a negotiating impasse. Among the central dossiers was the so-called moratorium on customs ...
Is AI sovereignty really an illusion?
Caught between the United States and China, many countries are now pursuing “AI sovereignty”: the ability not to depend on foreign powers for a technology destined to permeate the entire economy. But building domestically everything AI requires – from semiconductors to data centers, from cloud infrastructure to the most advanced models – is prohibitively expensive and probably impossible. ...