{"id":301,"date":"2026-10-03T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerelisadvisory.eu\/?p=301"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:18:03","slug":"europe-please-look-beyond-the-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerelisadvisory.eu\/fr\/2026\/10\/03\/europe-please-look-beyond-the-next-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe, please look beyond the next election."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is German Unity Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good day to remember that sometimes politics can achieve things that once seemed impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And perhaps also a good day for a coup de gueule<\/em><\/strong> as we say in French !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last few months, I have tried in my posts to find reasons to be optimistic about Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeepTech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are reasons to hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this week I read about SpaceX progressively moving away from Falcon 9 and its extraordinarily successful rideshare model as it transitions towards Starship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I had one uncomfortable thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, SpaceX.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for reminding us how dependent Europe still is on decisions taken on the other side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we have Ariane 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we have Vega-C bu Europe still lacks the launch cadence, economics and flexibility that SpaceX has made normal<\/strong>, especially for small satellites<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, Europe has extraordinary engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But where is our 20-year vision?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What should European AI look like in 2040?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do we guarantee competitive access to space?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What energy mix will power our factories, data centres and homes in 2050?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which technologies are so strategic that Europe simply cannot afford to lose control of them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These questions are not French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are not German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are European.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1960s and 1970s, French leaders made decisions on nuclear energy and strategic defence whose consequences would last generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can debate those choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we cannot deny that they were choices made with the next 30 or 50 years in mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

France still benefits from them today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this German Unity Day, Germany provides another reminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reunification required political courage, vision and the conviction that history could be shaped rather than simply managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is the question I would like to hear more often across Europe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are we building today that our great-grandchildren will thank us for?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not at the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not in the next opinion poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2075.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI. Energy. Space. Defence. Critical technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe has the talent, the industrial base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe even has the capital!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What it desperately needs is the willingness, vision and political courage to think in decades again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps sometimes the wake-up call has to come from the other side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, sincerely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, SpaceX.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Europe, wake up.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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