Airbus is absolutely crushing Boeing in terms of quality. Granted, we are woefully behind on the 'space' part of aerospace.
> energy
CERN is anchored to the EU. ITER is anchored to the EU. We are world leaders in wind energy.
> telecom
Except for everyone in the West scrambling to replace Huawei with Ericsson tech.
> drugs / biotech
BioNtech made the first breakthrough on a COVID vaccine.
The EU has many issues, but losing leadership in the sectors you mentioned is not one of them.
Such a hyperbole statement.
Airbus has the edge in the narrowbody aircraft market, especially A321, while Boeing is plagued by 737 MAX problem.
OTOH Airbus is well behind Boeing in the widebody segment. Boeing had 1,464 787 orders as of Aug 2019, 882 of those had been delivered. Airbus had only sold 913 A350. A380 has been discontinued while Boeing can still count on B748 freighter.
Of course 2020 threw a wrench to the airline industry and it remains to be seen how well it will recover post pandemic. Both Airbus and Boeing are affected deeply.
You are right that for now, Boeing is better in widebodies. But let's see Boeing new aircraft program, because currently Airbus is better prepared for the future.
Well, SpaceX caught with the pants down to everyone. Before the revolution of the reusable Falcon 9, the Ariane 5 was a fine reliable rocket.
Sadly, the Ariane 6 design predates the reusable revolution of SpaceX, how ever they are working on reusable Arianes that are similar to the Falcon 9 and Spaceship (https://www.techforspace.com/european-space-sector/european-...).
That's entirely political and nothing to do with the tech. Huawei's tech is arguably better, cheaper (and available now).
If you knew that important people would use your phones you could as well give them for free - easier to spy on them.
Anchored, yeah sure. So you're listing something that isn't in the EU, which is revealing. ITER is entirely irrelevant. It's a pork project that won't result in much. The biggest breakthroughs in fusion will derive from smaller projects, not giant slow-moving projects like ITER. The next 20-30 years of energy generation is wind, natural gas, oil, solar, some hydrogen and nuclear (and primarily only China is brave enough to build that). Fusion will make zero contribution in that time.
> BioNtech made the first breakthrough on a COVID vaccine.
Moderna was just as well positioned as BioNtech, you're more than reaching. Russia and China also have apparently successful vaccines being deployed.
> The EU has many issues, but losing leadership in the sectors you mentioned is not one of them.
That's true in the sense that the EU never had leadership in most fields to begin with.
It is surrounded by EU countries, in a country that is a pseudo-EU member. You're reaching.
> ITER is entirely irrelevant. It's a pork project that won't result in much.
Unless you have a seer's eye, these kinds of claims are baseless.
> The next 20-30 years of energy generation is wind, natural gas, oil, solar, some hydrogen and nuclear (and primarily only China is brave enough to build that)
Agreed and a sad state of affairs
> Moderna was just as well positioned as BioNtech
Which makes Moderna a leader too? It doesn't diminish BioNtech's work.
> That's true in the sense that the EU never had leadership in most fields to begin with.
You literally had to ignore multiple points in my parent comment to even be able to make this claim. Revealing..
Edit: not to mention we are commenting under an article that partly concerns ASML..