Lacking some domestic equivalent, "not having tech giants" means that hundreds of billions of euros annually are flowing out of the region to benefit someone el

Lacking some domestic equivalent, "not having tech giants" means that hundreds of billions of euros annually are flowing out of the region to benefit someone else instead of the citizens of that region. Forever. Add to that the political and cultural soft power accrued and also brain drain that both come with that and, yeah, that does seem to be a pretty big weakness.