It's good that they are already looking forward, because the race was already lost before we even started. Ariane 6 represents an outdated design philosophy despite not having launched yet, and there are small companies like Rocket Lab that are overtaking Ariane as well. I would really love to see the union countries increase funding towards space efforts, as of now we are too often piggybacking on US projects instead of really taking initiative of our own. I hope we will also get a capacity for our own manned launches.