The governments in Germany and France want to speed up the construction of clouds in the EU. A European Darpa for war research is being set up.

[…] A new Franco-German agency for innovations is planned for military research - based on the model of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).
In the trade conflict with the Trump administration, Germany and France are focusing on unity - an agreement with the USA should remain the declared goal. But the paper goes further: for the first time, the possibility of using “monetary and austerity policy levers” against Trump is brought into play.