Handelsblatt examines Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of €93 billion in foreign investment commitments at the Choose France summit, highlighting major AI and data center projects led by SoftBank while questioning whether these record figures can offset France’s mounting political instability, weak public finances and slowing reindustrialisation. Interviewed, HEC Paris professor Tomasz Michalski argues that beyond the global economic slowdown and trade tensions, France’s prolonged political instability has delayed investment projects, but adds that stronger economic growth and continued technological progress could help ease the country’s fiscal challenges.
