So does EU on Siemens, Thales, T-Systems, Capgemini, SAP, etc plus hundreds of other politically connected body shops peppered around Brussels. What's your point here, where are you going with this? That all governments have their preferred go-to monopolies for services? What's that got to do with the start-ups I was talking about?

And Amazon got off the ground from Bezos selling books online from his bedroom then pivoting to webs services, not from receiving government handouts to start a e-commerce business. These are the kind of scale-up success stories the EU lacks and can't be done thorough direct government intervention.