Gates in Europe

European foundations have very different traditions from their US counterparts, and attitudes to wealth and philanthropy are very different on either side of the Atlantic. So what influence has the Gates Foundation, with its vast wealth and the highly public way it deploys it, had on philanthropy in Europe? At the recent EFC conference in Portugal, Caroline Hartnell put this question to Francis Charhon of Fondation de France and Luc Tayart de Borms of King Baudouin Foundation.