[guru4consulting]

And make EU more like USA? let them be influenced by corrupted wall street, loose EPA regulations for pesticides, favor the rich in the name of capitalism? In spite of the flaws and messy bureaucracy, I still like EU for their policies towards environment, food, socialism, etc. And above all, EU is the single beacon of hope to keep a check on mega corps like Apple, Google, Meta, MS, etc.

[guru4consulting]

Of course, I totally agree that EU has to work on their common standards to run/startup a business.. and it is likely affecting their competitiveness (along with few other factors).

I should have added the context for my earlier comment. I was merely reacting to the parent's proposal "..incorporate the European states as self-governing US territories under the supervision of the federal government. And absorb NATO into DoD.." It has lot more long-term repercussions than merely standardizing the standards !! I assume he was n't serious and probably just a clickbait comment to bring attention to the issue.

[fjdjshsh]

This point is not relevant, unless your argument is that all those nice things in the EU (which I agree are much better than in the USA) arise from the bad things that the author is talking about (lack of standardization mostly).

Let me put in another way. Can the EU solve the standardization issue and still keep the nice things you mention? I don't think they are related (at least I don't see a tight link)

[buzzert]

I take it that you're very pleased with the direction that Europe is going, and disagree with most of what the author of the post says then?

[zeruch]

...or he doesn't believe in mutually exclusive binary options.

[6510]

Make it more EU like, more standardization. You want to learn how to start one business not learn everything all over again for each country.