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SAP’s €10 billion quarter reveals a business expanding from cloud subscriptions into the automation of work. Joule, AI agents and sovereign cloud services show how the European software group aims to make business processes and their governance its next growth market.
Altair Media Europe connects research, journalistic explanation and independent judgement to examine Europe’s technological, financial and institutional choices. This editorial outlines a constructive European approach: understanding how cooperation delivers results, giving progress serious attention and bringing the same analytical rigour to public debate and commissioned research.
Switzerland’s proposed 2038 Winter Olympics raise questions far beyond sport. Through four reflections on governance, sovereignty, communication and institutional legacy, Altair Media explores why the ability to coordinate existing capabilities may become one of the defining strengths of modern democracies.
Work, care and constant availability compete for the same limited time. As mental-health-related incapacity grows, six questions examine how Europe distributes pressure, protects recovery and allocates the costs when people can no longer cope.
Nvidia’s investment in Doctolib sharpens Europe’s innovation dilemma: accelerating growth while preserving room for competing technologies. Beyond research funding, European breakthroughs need first customers, credible validation and access to infrastructure that allows tomorrow’s alternatives to compete.
Which companies should Europe’s Scaleup Fund back — and what should its participation change? This Altair Signal examines commercial merit, strategic capability and European anchoring, asking how publicly backed investment can deliver additional scale, speed and lasting value for Europe.
Sultan Al Jaber operates across hydrocarbons, renewables and international energy investment. Through ADNOC, Masdar and XRG, he is helping build an energy system in which the cash flows of today’s economy are increasingly used to finance the infrastructure, materials and technologies of the next.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone are exploring a joint bid for European satellite spectrum. Their initiative could strengthen coverage and negotiating power. But European ground infrastructure leaves a harder question unresolved: who controls orbital capacity, market access and connectivity during a crisis?
Nvidia’s planned investments in four German startups sharpen Europe’s AI sovereignty dilemma: greater industrial capability can come with deeper technological dependence. The strategic test is how much freedom European companies retain to control their knowledge, change suppliers and negotiate their terms.
The Netherlands wants to tax more investment gains when they are realised, but that shift can delay revenue. As Parliament moves to protect modest savers, the box 3 debate turns to a harder question: which measures can credibly fund the reform?
