European Union not in ‘Champions League’ of economic security, ASML rep says


The European Union is not in the “Champions League of economic security”, and even “struggles to perform at Europa League level”.

That was the withering assessment of a senior representative of ASML, Europe’s most valuable technology company, who used a football analogy to attack Brussels’ efforts to de-risk its relations with China.

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