AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Cycle de conférences
à l'AF Sacramento

Are the US and EU Economies Decoupling?
- Florence Bouvet

Wednesday, December 2, 5:00-6:30pm

Reception & meet the speaker 5:00-5:30pm

Presentation starts at 5:30, in English, Q&A English & French, Wine and refreshments served

$15 AFSac Members, $20 non-members

The Alliance Francaise de Sacramento, in collaboration with the US SciencesPo Alumni Foundation, is pleased to announce a series of four conférences starting this December and continuing through the first half of 2027.

SciencesPo Lecture series at AFSacramento will launch with Florence Bouvet

Wednesday, December 2
Are the US and EU Economies Decoupling?
Florence Bouvet, PhD Economics, Legislative Analyst's Office in Sacramento

Are the US and EU Economies Decoupling?

Trade policy shifts and transatlantic interdependence, 2025–2026

Since April 2025, the US and EU have been through a turbulent stretch of trade policy: new tariffs, a Supreme Court ruling striking down part of the US tariff authority, a negotiated framework agreement, and a 15% ceiling now on most US tariffs on EU goods. Headlines describe this as “decoupling” — this talk asks whether that word is accurate.

Drawing on the latest trade, services, and investment data, the presentation examines what has actually changed,  asking how much of the relationship has genuinely shifted, and where.

Florence Bouvet is an economist, currently with the Legislative Analyst's Office in Sacramento. She taught economics for nearly twenty years in the Department of Economics at Sonoma State University (2007–2025), teaching courses ranging from US Economic History to International Economics, Econometrics, and the Economics of European Integration. Her research, drawing on focused on income inequality, political economy, and economic integration, and has resulted in eighteen peer-reviewed publications.

Upcoming 

Wednesday, February 3
A comparison of the US and French legal systems
Johann Morri, Director of LLM program-Lecturer (UC Davis School of Law-King Hall)

Wednesday, April 7
What is a francophone education really worth to an American?
Ben Cadranel, Founder Advocacy Chiefs LLC: The role of grants in building development programs to help underprivileged populations in the Sacramento region

Wednesday, June 2
How can a liberal French education become an unexpected competitive advantage in Silicon Valley?
Etienne Girard, Alliance board member and Treasurer, former Assistant treasurer at Intel
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Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies), founded in Paris in 1872, is one of France’s most internationally recognized institutions for the study of political science, international affairs, economics, law and the social sciences. Its reputation rests on a highly selective admissions process, multidisciplinary education, strong international orientation and a particularly influential alumni network.

Sciences Po has an extensive global network of 445 university partnerships, including leading U.S. institutions such as Columbia University, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Northwestern, Georgetown, Yale and the University of Chicago.