Sometimes I wonder if the lawmakers in EU are brain dead. The whole point of economic union is that free movement of goods without custom tax and this new rule is practically a custom tax for each country.
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
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#12Unfortunate choice of words, implies these people are being literally murdered...
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#13This is actively preventing me from sending packages to other countries as a maker. No matter how small the risk is, I don't want to risk a 5000 euro fine for sending a small amount of packages to other EU countries.
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#14So, the complain is that there is no harmonization and you want more centralized harmonization, basically?
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Being a European, I first upvoted, then moved on to read the article. I assume I’m not the only one.
And my corner of Europe is relatively not that red-tape-ish. But many places are pretty horrible when it comes to that.
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FWIW, I, a real human, have read it and upvoted it, about 5 minutes after starting to read it.
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#17What is amazing is that this goes so much against the concept of the EU. The EU was founded on the principles of four freedoms, Free movement of goods, Free movement of persons, Freedom to provide services, and Free movement of capital.
The EU even have a SME Test to maker sure small business are not overburdened by regulations.
Also there are thousands of lobbyists fighting for small businesses. Yes, this law will probably eventually be thrown out for small businesses but after how many years is a big question, and how many small businesses have lost there businesses.
And the law was devised by Ripa di Meana, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party and the green party.
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I'm not saying that this is impossible, but it's 3:40 on a Monday in Central Europe right now. I imagine the headline resonates with many readers here.
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#19It is possible to ignore laws if it's too much bother to comply with them... it's hard to imagine the authorities will come after someone for mailing out 10 anti-static bags.
Yeah I'm betting on that as well
In the end, it's mail being sent.
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#20It's funny, because what's actually, literally killing people is pollution...
Is it literally killing the majority of Europeans? How many deaths comes from an Arduino box?
Europe's smart people are going to have to move to another country to be entrepreneurs. That's going to kill Europe faster.