MARIO DRAGHI SHAKES THE ROUTINE AGAIN In a recent speech on the occasion of the Charlemagne award ceremony, Mario Draghi lamented the cumbersome and slow decision process of the EU, and calls for a”pragmatic federalism”. The obligation of building up a common Defense is a crucial reason to do so.

ANOTHER ATTACK AGAINST A FRENCH PUBLIC AGENCY On May 6, 2026, the Civic Service Agency – the public body responsible for implementing and overseeing the National civic service – was informed of a cybersecurity incident affecting its training platform, managed by  contractors holding corresponding contracts. Personal data was exposed. This

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AI EUROPEAN AI GIGAFACTORIES: AION ON THE STARTING BLOCKS AION is a consortium which includes, among others SCALEWAY (ILIAD group cloud provider), Orange, Quandela (a Quantum computing gem), EDF, ARDIAN, BULL, SCHNEIDER LECTRIC … AION will be a candidate to the coming EU RFP on Gigafactories. MISTRAL AI MULTIPLY CONTRACTS,

THE OBSERVATORY OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY IS LAUNCHING A NATIONAL SURVEY TO ASSESS FRENCH TECHNOLOGICAL DEPENDENCIES ON NON-EUROPEAN SOLUTIONS. AND DIGITAL RESILIENCE INDEX RAMPS UP; The Observatory has launched a national assessment  with the private sector. Results are intended to identify these dependencies and propose French and European alternatives. In parallel?

ORANGE CYBERDEFENSE OPENS IN SPAIN The specialized branch will rely on the commercial implantation of MAS Orange, the Spanish TELCO subsidiary of ORANGE Group. In order to be as close as possible to the cybersecurity needs of the companies shaping the Spanish territory, the Orange Cyberdefense teams will initially be

AI MISTRAL AI DEVELOPS INDUSTRIAL AI Mistral AI continues its strategy of vertical integration. After acquiring the start-up Koyeb last February, the company announced on May 19, 2026, that it had acquired Emmi AI, an Austrian start-up specializing in ‘Physics AI’,  the application of AI models to physical simulation and

HARFANGLAB IN ROME Alongside a delegation of French cybersecurity and defense companies, Anna Gamba and David Dufourcq have represented HarfangLab at Palazzo Farnese, the French Embassy in Rome, for a day of high-level conversations with Italian public and private sector stakeholders, on May 19, 2026. “What we’re bringing to the