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Politico (21 May 2026)

Pieter HAECK

The EU’s regulations are restrictive and out of sync with industry needs, said ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet.

The well-lit meeting room where Christophe Fouquet receives visitors contains a small shrine of gifts, corporate relics left behind by government representatives and executives who make the pilgrimage to this small Dutch town to see the head of Europe’s most valuable tech firm.

They come because his company, ASML, makes the machines behind the world’s most advanced chips. And Fouquet wants to send a message to Brussels: Europe is doing a bad job on artificial intelligence and risks losing companies to other regions.

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