It seems to me that this article is saying exactly the opposite of what you say.

The article is about how Europeans, that live in that "safe and secured society", are creating more startups than before.

>>"On the top of that, regulation in the EU is much worse than in the US. This does not help either. "

If you check those start-ups you can see that most of them are joining Y-combinator but they stay in Europe. So, also the opposite of what you are implying.