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EU is slowly cutting away sovereignity of its member states with regulations such as these. This is a very touchy subject for some of the european nations and "Hollywood production is dumb" is just an extremely stupid thing to bicker over at an international level. All it does is increasing political tension until another brexit happens.

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Sovereignty? By allowing the US to be the major cultural influence? Really?

You are missing the point. Each member nation should decide by itself about how open to outside cultural influences it is.

The advantage that the EU has in this situation is that it's better able to "negotiate" as a bloc of 450M people, than (to use the upstream example) eg. Malta, with 440,000 people.

If individual countries want to require a local content quota, Netflix/Amazon/etc will simply cut them off. When it's a massive market, that's vastly less likely.

Giving individual countries an opt-out from the EU-wide rules just provides an opportunity to divide and conquer.

Australia has similar content quotas for broadcast television, but hasn't tried to apply them to streaming services yet. Of course, for 25M people, our leverage is substantially less.

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