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.
Dokle god zajednička spoljna i bezbednosna politika budu ostali dalek cilj, i sve dok vojni (nuklearni) arsenali ne budu pod zajedničkom (EU ili nadnacionalnom kontrolom), nije realistično očekivati da će velike zemlje nonšalantno dozvoljavati preuzimanje (ponekad neprijateljsko) svojih najboljih firmi od strane stranih kompanija, ili dozvoliti propast velikih preduzeća: ovde se možemo prisetiti kontroverze oko Alstoma i neprijateljskog stava koji su Francuzi zauzeli kada se kao mogući spasilac javio nemački Simens.