Because we don't have fucking money anymore, France got one of the biggest debt in the world, so yes we are already struggling to fund our public services and army so wasting even more money on space stuff is dumb.

We should just kill the Ariane projects, we will never be on the same level than the USA and Asia in term of space capacities anymore so it's just better to close everything down and put the money somewhere else.

We know how to make planes, so we should just stay at this level rather than wasting billions in space.