"I don't want to detract from serious debate on this topic......but wasn't it Dire Straits?"
Certainly was - "Industrial Disease".
Oh thank god you good people picked up on this; I was beginning to question both the originality of Mark Knopfler and my own awareness of Dylan's work.
Now to the topic at hand, it is obvious that the targets and purposes of the EU with respect to SES run contrary to national interests of many a Euroland government and it will be interesting to watch this conflict play out. Ultimately it puts the french administration in a hard place; on one side there is the unremitting "strike at the ready" french workforce culture, the breaking of which would probably require a Reaganesque fortitude, on the other there is the EC demanding results after 10+ years of promises and lip service from SESAR, an industry backed bureaucratic exercise used to secure and expand the markets of the french based industrial heavyweights.