[John Jorsett]

It’s $5 billion cost provides negligible benefit to Europe, but does enable European nations to avoid using the American GPS navigation system.

France's handiwork, no doubt. They'd try to repeal the law of gravity if it had been discovered by an American.

[risk]

And Germany's.

[americanbychoice2]

I have driven many times in Europe with GPS. Incredibly the signals stopped as soon as I crossed the French border.
The Frogs apparently hate anything American. :)

[Tallguy]

France's handiwork, no doubt. They'd try to repeal the law of gravity if it had been discovered by an American.

Reminds me of a quote I heard attributed to Albert Einstein. He once quipped that if his theories were proven incorrect, the French would refer to him as "that German Scientist" and the Germans would refer to him as "that Jewish Scientist." But if his theories were upheld the Germans would refer to him as "a well-respected German Scientist," while the French would call him "a Citizen of the World."