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The fact not many launches happen from continental Europe has nothing to do with capabilities of the space industry or lack of expertise, but rather location.

Europe is far from the equator and densely populated so rocket launches from there are more costly, and failures can have a higher risk to life.

Arianne space has had 350+ successful missions after 45 years of operations, with most of those launching from overseas territories.

As a European, I'm glad functioning sewage systems took priority over an orbital launch capability.

Advancement of a culture is not only measured by rocket launches.

It’s the national equivalent of:

How long it takes you to ship this project? Two weeks.

And if you get help from Alice, Bob, and Charlie? Then it’s a year.

I don't understand the one country vs all of Europe - given a fixed population, being united in a single country surely makes everything a bit more efficient than being split in many small countries? India is much bigger than "all of Europe".