The @financialtimes.com recently featured a piece asking if France, and Europe, could become “a global AI powerhouse”. The FT piece has clear connections with the Draghi Report's embrace of a form of ‘European Preference’ 🇪🇺 in the chapter on competition policy. #AI #DraghiReport 1/n thing that has almost been tabooed in coverage of the Draghi report is its subtle advocacy for a pro European organisations’ approach in competition policy. The text of the Draghi report embeds that idea in several places. #EuropeanPreference #CompetitionPolicy 2/n Consider the “innovation defence”. The idea is to allow firms “in certain sectors to pool resources to cover large fixed costs and achieve the scale needed to compete at the global level” #Innovation 3/n 