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  • The EU regulations have earned a reputation for being a bit of a mess. While very robust, they’re less agile and predictable and have raised the bar to the extent that the EU has become the most costly and time-consuming jurisdiction to get medical device approval,” he said.

    By which margin? 10% more is acceptable, 10 times more will kill innovation.

    The advantage of the unified market is that there are less regulations to process. The EU kills their advantage by creating more regulations.

    The blind spot is that in the past, new EU regulations reduced the complexity of national regulations. Now everything is unified and new EU regulations are not a net efficiency improvement.



  • Why?

    These assumptions are not so inevitable considering how the US can compensate them:

    if the US dollar ceases to be the world currency

    Fascism helps to fight the wars that prevent anybody from dropping the dollar. Libya and Iraq don’t have to be the last ones.

    They’ll end up being in charge of an barely populated unproductive wasteland

    Not if Europe doesn’t have enough energy for their industries and has to shift them to the US. It hurts to see, but that’s what is happening.

    Downvoters, why does this not answer OP’s question?




  • Independent from whom? The USA? Then let’s not copy the American declaration of independence. Without going down conspiracy lane there is nothing above the EU. There is no need for independence.

    There is a need for original thought. We want European Facebook, AWS, search engine, AI, StarLink, electric cars - all after the US has shown us that it is useful. If we copy the US, we will also copy the current dismantling. If we want independence, we should learn to think independently first.



  • and has now asked for more safety nets.

    He wants the EU to provide an extra cash buffer on top of financial guarantees and increased safeguards to cover potential legal disputes and settlements — an idea many governments oppose.

    Nearly all the Russian assets are housed in Euroclear, a financial depository in Brussels.

    To push the risk onto Belgium will turn the EU evil. If the risk is so low then it should be easy to give these guarantees. If they are not given then the EU is abusing Belgium because the risk is actually high.