Comments by "" (@PainterVierax) on "Europe’s Lost Decades in Semiconductors" video.

  1. in your example the reasons are simple: EU legislation is more favorable to laborers thus growing manufacturing costs. In the meantime the US military is also using its NATO allies to sell equipment so they have cannibalized the EU market, just like IBM or Dell did with computer.
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  2.  @harrisonbergeron9746  EEC if you prefer. I wasn't talking about "federal" legislation but the national and regional laws.
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  3.  @cv990a4  WTF is that comment?! First, EU is based on post WW2 collaboration between France and FRG. So it's not always pan-european projects from start. Sure ECU is an old French coin, but, like for Euro, that choice was primarily driven to lessen the number of pronunciation disparities between the different EU languages. Concorde is a French and UK project only. France by itself started making rockets in the 60's. And before Ariane you seem to forget that the precursor of ESA did worked on the Europa rocket, which is not a French name despite already being launched from their site in French Guyana. CERN is just an acronym made to be pronounced, that's the only reason the name stayed for the actual OERN. The rest of the European countries also don't care still having US military bases on their lands… This is heavily cultural. France (as well as Quebec) are proud to be independent, resisting the hard and the soft power of English speaking societies. And when you see the fate of their French-spoken neighbors (New-Brunswick, Maine, Belgium, Switzerland) this is reinforcing the conviction they have to be obnoxious and protective towards their cultures and identities, including the language.
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  4.  @cv990a4  yeah baffled by your pedantry. Too elaborate for trolling. Seems legit hate speech. Dunno what France did to you but man you really need therapy.
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