This summary highlights raised during the roundtable “What Finance for Strategic Autonomy?” held on July 1, 2025, at the Washington Plaza in Paris. The event was organized by the Veblen Institute, the Energy & Prosperity Chair, the Sorbonne Center for Economics, and the Convention des Entreprises pour le Climat. The conclusions and recommendations expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the participants.

Participants (in order of intervention): Claude Raynal, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; Jean Boissinot, director of studies and risk analysis at ACPR; Thierry Philipponnat, economist and former chief economist at Finance Watch; Gabriel Cumenge, deputy director of banks and general interest financing at the General Directorate of the Treasury; Karen Degouve, Sustainable Finance leader; Laurence Scialom, professor of economics at Paris Nanterre University; Sandrine Ménard, deputy director of corporate financing and financial markets at the General Directorate of the Treasury, Jérôme Reboul, deputy secretary general in charge of the Regulation and International Affairs Directorate at AMF; Marie Ekeland, founder of investment funds Daphni and 2050, General Manager of 2050; Jérôme Saddier,president of Crédit Coopératif; Shahin Vallée, director of the Geoeconomics programme at German Council on Foreign Relations; Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran, lecturer at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, scientific advisor at the Veblen Institute, scientific director of the Energy and Prosperity Chair; Bernard Cazeneuve, former Prime Minister.

The debates were moderated by Jean-Marc Vittori, editorialist and columnist at Les Echos newspaper, and Madeleine Péron, economist at the Veblen Institute.