Space

With how reliant we, as a society, have become on digital things the two are connected. Not just for internet access to browse lemmy on our phones, but also for more fundamental parts like managing our increasingly more complex power grids and logistic chains. The article already mentions some of the reasons already.

Recent sabotage/accidents destroying undersea cables have shown how vulnerable crucial links are and how easily they can be destroyed. Satelite connections can be a good (and harder to disrupt) fallback option. On the military side Starlik has shown how crucial it can be in the war in Ukraine, and at the same time the dangers of it being controlled by someone like Elon Musk. Do we in Europe really want this dependence? With advances in satelite imagery and better internet connections satelites networks will also become increasingly more important for the economy. Again, do we want to rely on others for this fundamental part of infrastructure?

Europe must become "a space power once again, with France at its heart," he said.

This however frustrates me. Because as much as i think Macron in many ways has the right mindset that Europe needs to step up and act like its size, the "with France at its heart" part is exactly why it won't happen. As long as individual contries have this selfish attitude and try to claim as much as possible for themselves instead of cooperating and putting the collective first, it just won't happen.