The aerospace group's CEO is due to visit Warsaw shortly. He is hoping for a major order from the country, which has traditionally preferred to buy from the US.
Germany has a track record of not being a reliable European partner when it comes to aerospace, energy, and defense. They’d rather play their own game, give subsidies to Starlink instead of working with European partners, ESA, and cooperate with existing knowledge. Random articles but tldr it’s always Germany’s economy first thanks to the US [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Germany has a track record of not being a reliable European partner when it comes to aerospace, energy, and defense. They’d rather play their own game, give subsidies to Starlink instead of working with European partners, ESA, and cooperate with existing knowledge. Random articles but tldr it’s always Germany’s economy first thanks to the US [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Or maybe France should finally develop Guyana so they have a GDP of their own instead of having European partners co-sign the subsidy drip-feed.
So you can not name a problem with Germany in the Ariane program.
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That was really horrible of Germany to give more money to the Ariane program, when it was in trouble due to massive technical problems.