The EU is on the forefront of biotech for example. The “Pfizer” vaccine and the mRNA tech that originated all Western vaccines were researched and made in the EU, in the case of Pfizer, only the manufacturing was outsourced to the US.
We also have the most successful civilian aircraft manufacturer of the world in Airbus after Boeing jumped off a cliff.
The MIC is also caching steam, world’s biggest munitions factory and an 1500% stock valuation increase for Rheinmetall.
There is a ton of other stuff as well.
Don’t believe either US, Russian or Chinese news on the EU as all of them are actively running propaganda campaigns against it.
Yeah, I think the point about US, Russian or Chinese news is crucial. I will leave US aside for a while - a situation there is very dynamic, they used to be a bit more like the EU in this regard. But in Russia and China, clearly, there is no independent media. They have propaganda instead of public debate. Thus, you hear about positive things happening there, as this is the goal of propaganda. In the EU, there is a vital and highly critical public debate, which focuses on shortcomings. This is a strength, since the issues cannot be just ignored - but the feedback of negative information from the citizens reaches also outsiders. In US, one thing seems to go well - bussiness. And while they sure do get a lot of money, there is also one more kind of propaganda, that might influence the view: marketing. Unfortunately, in a world where in many sectors more capital comes from investors than customers, you can get far with just marketing…
In brief, I think there is an issue of reporting here. Things seem bad in the EU, because bad things are reported in the EU. This reminds me another anecdote: You will read in many places that Nordic countries have low income inequality, but high wealth inequality compared to other countries. Indeed, if you look at the tables, this seems to be the case. You will find many complex mechanistic explanations of this phenomenon on the internet. But if you read into the original Credit Suisse report (https://web.archive.org/web/20250401062226/https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf), you can find this paragraph:
The distributional data have certain fairly standard features. The unit of analysis is usually a household or family, but is in a few cases the (adult) individual. Household sample surveys are employed in almost all countries. The exceptions are the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), which use data from tax and other registers covering the entire population. For all other countries, except the United States, the wealth shares of the top groups are expected to be understated because wealthy households are less likely to respond, and because the financial assets that are of greater importance to the wealthy – e.g. equities and bonds – are especially likely to be under-reported.
You’ll have to be more specific. When it comes to rockets, there simply isn’t much money to be made in europe. There aren’t any good spaceports in mainland europe and the market isn’t big enough to naturally drive big investments. You only have one government-operated launch provider whose main goal is to just exist, so you remain independent at least in theory and some startups that are trying to push into the cheapest segments of the launching business.
In terms of NATO defense, yes, many european leaders are “weak”, as in, they know that their citizens don’t want to get dragged into the war, so they take every opportunity to de-escalate. They all don’t want to be seen as the one starting a war.
You won’t find me defending their indecision, but their stance makes sense when you consider that they don’t want to engage russia. And there are some good reasons for not wanting to. There are better reasons to engage IMO, but I can see their side.
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The EU is on the forefront of biotech for example. The “Pfizer” vaccine and the mRNA tech that originated all Western vaccines were researched and made in the EU, in the case of Pfizer, only the manufacturing was outsourced to the US. We also have the most successful civilian aircraft manufacturer of the world in Airbus after Boeing jumped off a cliff. The MIC is also caching steam, world’s biggest munitions factory and an 1500% stock valuation increase for Rheinmetall.
There is a ton of other stuff as well.
Don’t believe either US, Russian or Chinese news on the EU as all of them are actively running propaganda campaigns against it.
Yeah, I think the point about US, Russian or Chinese news is crucial. I will leave US aside for a while - a situation there is very dynamic, they used to be a bit more like the EU in this regard. But in Russia and China, clearly, there is no independent media. They have propaganda instead of public debate. Thus, you hear about positive things happening there, as this is the goal of propaganda. In the EU, there is a vital and highly critical public debate, which focuses on shortcomings. This is a strength, since the issues cannot be just ignored - but the feedback of negative information from the citizens reaches also outsiders. In US, one thing seems to go well - bussiness. And while they sure do get a lot of money, there is also one more kind of propaganda, that might influence the view: marketing. Unfortunately, in a world where in many sectors more capital comes from investors than customers, you can get far with just marketing…
In brief, I think there is an issue of reporting here. Things seem bad in the EU, because bad things are reported in the EU. This reminds me another anecdote: You will read in many places that Nordic countries have low income inequality, but high wealth inequality compared to other countries. Indeed, if you look at the tables, this seems to be the case. You will find many complex mechanistic explanations of this phenomenon on the internet. But if you read into the original Credit Suisse report (https://web.archive.org/web/20250401062226/https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf), you can find this paragraph:
You’ll have to be more specific. When it comes to rockets, there simply isn’t much money to be made in europe. There aren’t any good spaceports in mainland europe and the market isn’t big enough to naturally drive big investments. You only have one government-operated launch provider whose main goal is to just exist, so you remain independent at least in theory and some startups that are trying to push into the cheapest segments of the launching business.
They won’t. Don’t feed the trolls.
ESA‘s Ariane 5 and 6 were very successful commercially in the launch market for decades.
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In terms of NATO defense, yes, many european leaders are “weak”, as in, they know that their citizens don’t want to get dragged into the war, so they take every opportunity to de-escalate. They all don’t want to be seen as the one starting a war.
You won’t find me defending their indecision, but their stance makes sense when you consider that they don’t want to engage russia. And there are some good reasons for not wanting to. There are better reasons to engage IMO, but I can see their side.
It might not be all that important, but I hear the Dutch make some decent semiconductor equipment /S
Consumer’s rights and privacy are the best in the world by far. I guess Russian trolls are not interested in that sort of progress…
yeah lets drain it like Trump does eh?
That’s the result of a deliberative decision-making process. The cost of democracy maybe 🤷
But to be fair, decision-making and unity increases during crises the Union faces