Welcome to a new episode of EU Untangled. We want to try out something new.

We call it The Week Untangled. We look back at the past week to give you a quick and dirty recap of what has happened in the past seven days in and around the EU.

Short, crisp and sassy.

So you can recap the week and enter the weekend with a clear conscience, feeling well informed knowing that you didn't miss a thing. You can always check out the show notes of the

episode for the links and read them in more detail. And another thing, Ewan Tangled is a private

project by Victor Aguilar and Alexander Roth. Any opinions expressed in this podcast are

strictly personal and cannot be associated to any third party.

But now let's get started. So this is the week untangled February 10th to 14th, 2025.

But actually, we started a day earlier on Sunday the 9th, with big news in Tiny Liechtenstein,

where the Fatterland Union, a liberal conservative party, was big news in Tiny Liechtenstein, where the Faderland Union, a liberal

conservative party, was voted to lead the Liechtensteinian government. Brigitte Haas is set to become

the first female prime minister of the country of around 40,000 inhabitants. On Monday, the three

Baltic states, Estonia, Lithuania and Atvia, decoupled their electricity

system from Russia and joined the European one, a big step that took years to prepare.

For some well-meant but slightly awkward attempts to promote the step, have a look at the

video of the Commission President and the heads of states at the ceremony.

The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit took place in Paris on Monday and Tuesday,

attracting heads of state and government, business leaders, and vice president of the United

States, J.D. Vance, in his first visit to Europe. French president Emmanuel Macron announced

his attention to attract 109 billion investment into AI in the coming years, quote unquote. While he didn't specify

where the money would come from, the United Arab Emirates would invest between 30 to 50 billion

euros to build data center in France. And the president of the European Commission, Ursula Fonderlian,

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