translate English to French: Hitherto, the ascendancy of the inertia that characterises national armaments markets and the differences between European countries have commanded attention, to the extent that thinking on the future of the integration of armaments markets has centred more on differences and issues on which countries are opposed than on questions that bring them together and make them increasingly interdependent.
Cette manière de percevoir la situation est sans doute à l'origine de la façon dont les partisans d'une européanisation de la défense ont conçu non seulement leur rôle mais aussi les modalités pratiques de leur intervention.