Project Bromo: Europe is drawing new lines of autonomy and agency in communications

On October 23, 2025, it became known about the merger of European aerospace giants Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo to combine satellite divisions worth $11.6 billion and projected revenue of $7.4 billion and create a joint venture that plans to compete with Elon Musk’s American Starlink.

The project of major European companies demonstrates how Europe’s strategy of autonomizing technological sectors is shifting from defense to creating its own infrastructure capable of determining development trajectories.

In choosing the communications sector for large-scale industrial consolidation, there is an understanding that control over data determines the architecture of security and the ability to block points of vulnerability that can be used by China in global competition.