{"id":2390,"date":"2026-03-12T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:14:29","slug":"no-6-the-real-crisis-europe-doesnt-need-more-money-it-needs-more-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/no-6-the-real-crisis-europe-doesnt-need-more-money-it-needs-more-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 6. The Real Crisis: Europe Doesn\u2019t Need More Money. It Needs More Suppliers."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2390\" class=\"elementor elementor-2390\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50d590a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50d590a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8de1dde\" data-id=\"8de1dde\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a7d0fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6a7d0fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Every European OEM I speak with says the same thing:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t lack contracts. We lack qualified suppliers.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Some facts:<\/span><\/p><ul style=\"text-align: justify;\"><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several major OEMs report supply chain shortages on 30\u201370% of components;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many programs now run months or years behind schedule due to supplier gaps;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Up to 60% of potential SMEs fail at certification or documentation requirements.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is why the bottleneck is not political.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Not financial.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Not technological.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s operational.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And it\u2019s exactly why the next decade will be defined by one thing:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Which European SMEs enter and succeed in the defence &amp; aerospace supply chain.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every European OEM I speak with says the same thing: \u201cWe don\u2019t lack contracts. We lack qualified suppliers.\u201d Some facts: Several major OEMs report supply chain shortages on 30\u201370% of components; Many programs now run months or years behind schedule due to supplier gaps; Up to 60% of potential SMEs fail at certification or documentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dans.ltd\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}