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European Straits #111

Dear all,

This is a quiet week, a bit of rest between my last week and travelling to Singapore 🇸🇬 next week with the Cercle des économistes (+ a few additional meetings to learn more about that intriguing country). By the way, many readers of this newsletter have been sending me reading suggestions about Singapore, which I’m currently working my way through. And others have pointed out that they are living there, and so I very much look forward to meeting you. Thank you everyone 🤗!

Right before Singapore, I’ll spend 36 hours in Paris 🇫🇷 to attend the OECD’s Going Digital Summit. As you may remember, I was a supporting Andy Wyckoff, Dirk Pilat and their colleagues while they were writing the Going Digital report. The report will be released next week, not without some celebrations and a long list of panels that you can watch online (alas, being there live is invitation-only). I’ll be participating in the one titled “Making digital transformation work for all businesses”, which is on…