>Buy tech instead of offering endless (paperwork intensive) subsidies. Which would be gov competition which in the current status quo of EU governance is a big

>Buy tech instead of offering endless (paperwork intensive) subsidies. Which would be gov competition which in the current status quo of EU governance is a big nono. The US cares a bit less about that and it's companies got the clout, the money and keep buying out EU ones in new markets or existing ones. China obviously cares even less and will straight up do what you said. What Europe needs is a lot of different changes, it needs to ramp up it's market unification and notably some protectionism to let it's local companies mature and prevent even mature ones from being Nokia'd or the like. >Harmonize markets so you can just sell everywhere without having to fund the local civil servant union by filling the new-and-special-snowflake paperwork for every country you want to sell to. That's something the EU is very slowly doing.