> Did France offer to send its industries to Ireland to help out, and avoid competing? You can read up on the history of Arianespace and Airbus to see how Fran

> Did France offer to send its industries to Ireland to help out, and avoid competing? You can read up on the history of Arianespace and Airbus to see how France did play the Europe game. But that was in another era, at a time where EU countries were trying to integrate their economies rather than directly compete against each other.   Apart from that, the "within limits" part of your comment is exactly what I've been talking about all along our discussion.