I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.
A good insight on the feasibility of the eurostack [at the time of writing].
If we are looking at this from the angle of geopolitical dependency rather than ideological purity it’s quite far down the list to self-manufacture products that are available widely from several countries with varied political and economic ties.
The point is to diffuse the economic ties enough that no actor would be individually holding a leash like US currently is. In some products this requires local capability, but hardly all of them, the point is to make EU a sovereign actor at the world stage, not prepare for an “EU against the World” -war where EU detaches itself from the global community.
If we are looking at this from the angle of geopolitical dependency rather than ideological purity it’s quite far down the list to self-manufacture products that are available widely from several countries with varied political and economic ties.
The point is to diffuse the economic ties enough that no actor would be individually holding a leash like US currently is. In some products this requires local capability, but hardly all of them, the point is to make EU a sovereign actor at the world stage, not prepare for an “EU against the World” -war where EU detaches itself from the global community.
I fully agree. We can buy screws and nuts that can be made anywhere and produce our own value added products.