In total, Macron and his co-host Indian prime minister Narenda Modi will welcome about 80 leaders, including US vice-president JD Vance (in his first trip to Europe since inauguration), Chinese vice premier Zhang Gouqing as well as top execs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai.
He said the EU was “prepared” to respond and “ready to act within one hour,” but insisted that any reaction needs to be at the EU level, noting Germany’s particular vulnerability to any US tariffs.
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Only last week, France’s Mistral AI also launched its AI assistant Le Chat – you can see the nod to its French roots there – which now tops the list of most popular apps in Europe.
Looking at other EU responses, French president Emmanuel Macron also hit at Trump’s plans to impose tariffs against the EU.
