Compared to the US's SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Sierra, and others, no, Europe has no private space industry to one order of magnitude. (Spare me the talk

Compared to the US's SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Sierra, and others, no, Europe has no private space industry to one order of magnitude. (Spare me the talk about how Arianespace and Airbus are "private".) Rocket Lab could have chosen Australia to move to. It could have moved to Canada, or to an ESA member nation and thus gain access to Kourou. But it chose the US despite the ample existing competition there.