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Politico (1 June 2026)

Mathieu POLLET

The U.S. president’s weaponization of European dependence on U.S. firms has changed the conversation in Brussels.

Donald Trump may have finally done what years of warnings from Paris and Brussels could not: Convince Europe’s free-market holdouts that relying on American technology is a vulnerability.

With his threats toward Greenland, sanctions against international officials and willingness to weaponize Europe’s dependence on American firms, the U.S. president has broken down the final bits of resistance to a French-led push to promote European tech companies at the expense of American alternatives.

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