Yes, Stardock has been trying to secure a European publisher for most of the year leading up to its release, and they got turned down by every single publisher who claimed the German RTS market would not support a space RTS.
In short, blame the European publishers, not Stardock - because they went through every single publisher that would've been capable of doing the job.
Doing a little research goes a long way, because making such comments and assumptions doesn't reflect on you very well