Unless European companies start paying higher salaries it won’t happen, and unless we come up with ways to get more funding in startups that won’t happen either.

The former is to some extend a consequence of the latter, which is a consequence of EU being a confederation and not a federation, we have N smaller markets all competing with each other. Who do we kid other than ourselves by expressing that we can compete?

We are fundamentally and structurally crippled and as long as we think ourselves $Nationalify first and Europeans second, we are doomed to stay second if not third.