Here are the notes and links for this week’s interviews.

🎙 Good and bad week for Amazon in Europe

• Amazon to close French warehouses until next week after court order
• Amazon's EU head of operations steps down amid virus crisis
• No end in sight yet for Amazon shutdown in France
• CMA provisionally clears Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo
• Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo provisionally approved by UK watchdog

🎙 Natalie Novick on the future of contact tracing apps and the issues of the PEPP-PT project

• Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing
• European coronavirus app platform gains traction with governments
• Decentralized Protocol Removed From EU Contact Tracing Website Without Notice
• An Investigation Into PEPP-PT
• European coronavirus contact tracing app sparks uproar in the privacy community
• Coronavirus: An EU approach for efficient contact tracing apps
• Italy tests contact-tracing app to speed lockdown exit
• Europe's PEPP-PT COVID-19 contacts tracing standard push could be squaring up for a fight with Apple and Google

🎙 Interview with Giovanni Fili, founder and CEO at Exeger

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Toon Vanagt on why governmental bailouts are not the right way to go for the startup ecosystem

• Let’s not misuse #Covid19 to privatise the startup profits and socialise the scale-up losses
• Why Should We Save Start-ups?
• Robin Klein: Don’t bail out the startups
• Belgian start-up scene calls for ‘life support’ amid COVID-19 crisis
• COVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov trails Europe in its response
• With this cry for help, Dutch investors are pressuring the cabinet to help startups

Daniela Seixas, founder and CEO at Tonic App

Matt Kurleto, ambassador of Startup Hansa

Here are some details on the panellists of this episode:

• Rune Theill, co-founder and CEO of Rockstart
  • Startups: postpone your next fundraising until at least Q4 2020… if you can
• Aaron Blumenthal, director of global portfolio services at 500 Startups
• Antonio Pisante, program manager at Techstars Smart Mobility Accelerator

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