@bert_hubert there is immense talent and resources in Europe but a notorious reluctance to actually take serious risk or discomfort the status quo / vested interests.
So its always talking a beautiful talk ("digital and green transition", yeah, I actually totally dig that) but not walking the tough, walk-on-broken-eggs, walk.
Yet the pressure to own up to the challenges of the digital era is rising and as you say, the total dependence on remote centers "is probably not smart in the long term"