, Columnist
How Many Airbuses Can the EU Invent? Too Many
Batteries, cloud computing and now semiconductors are getting state backing. What’s missing are the ingredients for fostering the next big idea.
Not a one-size-fits-all solution.
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
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If the Trump presidency and Brexit convinced the European Union to start acting more like a sovereign power and less like a supermarket, Covid-19 has shown there’s a depressingly long journey ahead.
First there was fighting over protective medical equipment. Then the bungled start to its vaccine rollout. Now the scale of the bloc’s dependence on the U.S. and Asia in technology is being driven home hard.