I think the vision is a bit caricatural : France and Italy still have an important industry. Car, planes, drugs, luxury goods, trains, space launches, fin-mecha

I think the vision is a bit caricatural : France and Italy still have an important industry. Car, planes, drugs, luxury goods, trains, space launches, fin-mechanics and I miss a lot... Fr and IT are 6th and 7th economies in the world : you cannot achieve that without an important industrial layer. But of course Germany is the biggest industrial actor in Europe and among the biggests in the world.