Europe's Approach to Nanotechnology Comes Under Fire

Bureaucracy.

What appears to be incompetence is more often a tactic for defeating an idea by mindless obstruction hoping it will go away and die. In most cases it actually works. Hooray for the narrow of mind and shame on the weak of will and mind. This applies to much more than this one issue. The herd depends on a few to direct and lead them. But what if the herd doesn't even know about many of the issues where they are being led and misled. This, also, will lead to victory for bureaucracy. The public has been bamboozled so many times in so many ways by those with "power" (political and financial; no wait those are the same now, I forgot) that they are a dazed and/or an ignorant body in most cases.

On that score it doesn't matter whether it is American or European bureaucracy, their tactics are similar.