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Story: EU states failing to drive IT

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The EU should stop looking outwards and start looking inwards if they hope to achieve lasting positive results.

The EU isn't unlike the big corporate manager who refuses to listen to internal employees who only have the long term interest of the company in mind but instead swallows everything the external consultant (with personal commercial motivations) tells him to swallow.
One year later the external consultant has reached his target and gets his bonus, the project however is nowhere near of what was promised yet costing twice as much as projected already. So... blame the internal guys, sack a few, outsource the rest and all looks well on paper. This year.

Enter the EU who bends over backwards to do what the US and big corp lobbiests are telling them to do. And on the other hand paying for that by 'saving' thru means of outsourcing and outtasking thousands of miles away. In short, pay with one hand, through out with the other. In the end leaving you with...?
All the while ignoring the little internal guys who all together just happen to represent the biggest part of national revenue and job positions and do care about what kind of future their sons and daughters grow up in. Gee, sounds familiair?

Not that the EC is without blame. They've messed up big time as well.

The EC and EU should look inwards. Create a new economy, new markets, new innovations, new oppurtunities, new jobs, etc, etc. Simply don't do what others are telling you to do. That'll create a need and a need creates inspiration and motivation out of which follows innovation, inventions, improvements, etc, etc.

Currently the EU pays top dollar for what we could easily do better ourselves if we wanted to or must. And we give away that what we can but don't want to do for that money. But still we wonder what that will leave us with in the end? Are you blind? How about nothing. Duh.

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