On August 27 at a business forum in #Paris, Führerin #Ursula von der Leyen stated the obvious: the former advantages of the European economy have all disappeared. The European economic model, she explained, had rested on several pillars: cheap imported energy from #Russia, open global trade, growing access to the Chinese market, US strategic protection, and Western technological leadership. What von der Leyen chose not to mention was that these advantages did not disappear by accident.