As long as a common foreign and security policy remains a distant goal, and as long as military (nuclear) arsenals are not under common (EU/supranational) control, it is unrealistic to expect that large countries will nonchalantly allow the takeover (sometimes hostile) of their top firms by foreign companies, or let major companies go down the tube – we may recall here the controversy around Alstom and the dim view Paris took of a possible Siemens-led rescue operation.
Dok god zajednička vanjska i sigurnosna politika ostaju dalekim ciljem, a vojni (nuklearni) arsenali nisu pod zajedničkom (EU/nadnacionalnom) kontrolom, nerealistično je očekivati kako će velike zemlje nonšalantno dozvoliti preuzimanja (nekad i neprijateljska) svojih vodećih tvrtki od strane stranih kompanija, ili pak dozvoliti propast svojih najvećih tvrtki – ovdje bismo se mogli prisjetiti kontroverze oko Alstoma i skepticizma Pariza vezano uz mogućnost predvođenja operacije spašavanja od strane Siemensa.