You can say the EU is doing good or bad, but what is reality is that this blog post is ignoring is that the European economy is kind of just falling apart right now directly because of these types of regulations and reforms.

German labor unions are the weakest they’ve been in decades, Europe as a whole is an incredibly undesirable place to run a business in 2024, and EU companies have rested on their laurels so long that they couldn’t hope to even match American and Chinese R&D numbers in the next decade because of these types of regulations pretty much enforcing the status quo.

Europeans have just relegated to the fact that they will always be subservient to American tech companies, which is just brain dead economic policy that will reverse course in 5-10 years once France and Germany shake hands and realize they’ve just fucked themselves over again.

I know it’s not about that, but if you’re going to use anecdotes they should be accurate. The only people who think the EU is doing a good job handling tech are populists, not economists.