To be fair:

1. They provided evidence (construction of a fab in Dresden).

2. Executives lie all of the time.

Aside: after all of the denunciations of AI companies claims of danger, I expected comments here to be denouncing this as a “ASML shill article trying to get the government to buy more of their product”. Not that I believe, but the contrast is striking.

since when are executives statements meant to produce more investment into them trustable?

even more so it is reasonable to assume their (executive) statement was a simplification ignoring small for the overall statement irrelevant exceptions

like ignoring there being a factory build which is small and only meant for older nodes producing embedded chips and is for the car industry only

because honestly while the factory does matter for Bosh, it doesn't really make much difference for the larger picture of chip production in the EU

> lithography giant calls on EU to help create demand

Will lie for billions of taxpayers money.

I think there's potentially confusion around timing; the order for this facility would probably have been a year or so ago, so fits with not selling anything in 2026.