Policymaking in democracies is hard and nowhere is that truer than in the multinational setting of the European Union. Belatedly, a larger construct of EU policymakers have come to appreciate that genetic engineering is technology, and Europe is falling behind in an increasingly technological world. China is now pursuing biotechnology for both economic and military reasons, creating a national security concern in the West.  The message has even gotten to America’s RFK, Jr., who railed against mRNA vaccines but now understands the message from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology and calls for “making American biotech accelerate.” EU leaders more recently softened their tone toward allowing patent...

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