France is furious that Germany has, without giving its fellow EU members advance notice, unilaterally pursued a €200 billion support package for its own industry, which threatens to destabilize competitiveness in the single market. Berlin has also opted for U.S. and Israeli suppliers for a future missile defense shield over Eastern Europe rather than a European developed and produced alternative that would include the Franco-Italian SAMP/T system. There is also tension over Germany’s decision to continue to phase out nuclear power rather than turning to France for new next-generation reactors. Plenty of smiles for the cameras, but no substantive breakthrough. For its part, Germany, which built its economy on cheap Russian gas fueling an industry whose major export destination was China, sees an economic model collapsing on both ends in a newly divided world—and which it cannot reconfigure at the snap of its fingers. In this context, Berlin is particularly frustrated with France’s refusal allow the construction of a new natural gas pipeline that would connect Germany to Spain, which hosts the majority of Europe’s Liquified Natural Gas import terminals; France is also accused of promoting “European defense” initiatives that in reality favor its own industry.