Precarious time in EU AI policy. In principle, it's great to see von der Leyen commit to middle power coordination. But this language leaves open two paths: hurt pacing efforts by adversarially inserting the EU, or build an alliance aimed at more reliable U.S. relations instead. The wrong kind of alliance is regulatory and adversarial: 'if the US can't get this right, then we will have to'. I don't think that works: even alongside fellow middle powers, the EU does not have the leverage to…