This week, Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler discuss the recent developments in the standoff between the US and France related to the digital tax, Acast borrowing €25 million from the European Investment Bank, the ways in which VCs cover Europe, and much more. In the interview department, listen to a conversation with Daniel Korski, co-founder and CEO of Public.io. Today's episode is sponsored by the O'Reilly Velocity conference that's coming to Berlin on November 4th to 7th. The conference will focus on teaching new skills, approaches, and technologies for building and managing large-scale, cloud-native systems. It will cover everything from Kubernetes and site reliability engineering to observability and performance to give you a comprehensive understanding of applications and services. Get your tickets on velocityconf.com/tech and stay on top of the rapidly changing cloud landscape. Listeners of the Tech.eu podcast can get 20 percent off of most passes to Velocity — use the code TECHEU20 during registration. Check out the full show notes on Tech.eu: https://tech.eu/news/podcast-133-new-france-digital-tax-acast-eib-public-daniel-korski For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy