PARIS — Germany has a reminder for Washington: The United States needs Europe in order to get to outer space. "Germany and Europe provide critical key technologies" for U.S. space missions, German Space Minister Dorothee Bär told POLITICO in an interview this week. "That is why we can confidently say: without us, it cannot be done." “There are clear mutual dependencies,” she said, pointing to European-built technology used in NASA’s missions as proof that Europe still has leverage in the new