Yeah right, with all the restrictions and regulations EU will never touch anywhere near "superpower" territory, ban anything you want, even with toughest protectionism (which is always bad) EU lacks manpower, knowledge and education for sufficient IT sector development.

Software developers like (as one might assume) to earn money and immigrate to US on first possibility or job offer, where there is ongoing boom in innovation and development, where companies compete to hire them, nobody likes to be suffocated with heavy EU taxes and get lower salary because main competitors are banned.