translate English to French: If the choice facing the smaller countries is either to buy European defence equipment that is more expensive than similar equipment which they could buy from the United States, or to sacrifice their own industries, jobs and capabilities on the altar of some supposedly greater European good, then their compliance cannot be taken for granted, even at the price of weakening Europe's overall capability.
Qui plus est, les changements structurels les plus visibles au sein de l'industrie européenne ont concerné principalement les entreprises des quatre pays ayant les dépenses de défense les plus élevées (Allemagne, France, Italie et Royaume-Uni).