Too busy postponing their NATO payments while building gas pipelines with Russia.
This morning’s headlines in Germany suggest that the France are now maneuvering the EU around to halt the Russian pipeline into Germany. No one expected that angle.
Part of the urgency over getting the pipeline up and operational....they will need a fallback position for the electrical grid once they start shutting down the nuclear and coal powered stations. Some people expect more natural gas powered stations (very costly), and it could only occur if the Russian natural flows in. Without that fallback position....the Germans would have to buy nuke power off of France (giving the French economy in the next twenty years a tremendous boost if they can stop the pipeline from Russia).