According to the 2020 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey of attractive aerospace and investment targets, the UK has slipped from fourth to seventh place Unsurprisingly, the US is top of the list across a range of seven variables. In European terms, Germany and Holland are just below the UK but, significantly, France is 21st in the PwC list, which perhaps confirms a historical pattern from a country that once defined yoghurt as a strategic good. The EU Commission has acted to reduce blanket domestic controls on intra-European trade in defence and aerospace but old traditions and interests are hard to kill.
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