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EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime

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Re: EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime

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Post by matthewmacleod »

dmitrygr wrote: post #9
matthewmacleod wrote: post #5

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That obviously makes no sense. A club isn’t a sovereign entity just because it has rules. Hungary is free to leave the EU and set a border policy that conflict with EU law if it wishes - but if it wants to remain part of that organisation, particularly one that has open borders thorough The Schengen area, then of course it needs to follow the rules.

As UK showed, leaving EU is hard and EU will fight you on it as well as seek to penalize you

Of course leaving the EU is hard. Membership has a significant effect on regulation and governance. The fact that something is hard also doesn’t mean you aren’t free to do it.

It being “fought” or countries being “penalised” is a matter of opinion but not one I share.

Re: EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime

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Post by joe_mamba »

surgical_fire wrote: post #29
joe_mamba wrote: post #11

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Are you really conflating the idea of Schegen with "keeping unlocked doors to your house"? Very quick way to show you are not willing to engage in ideas in good faith.

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Re: EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime

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Post by nradov »

echelon wrote: post #8
dmitrygr wrote: post #3

> The objective is to enable innovative companies to operate under a single, harmonised set of EU-wide rules, covering relevant aspects of corporate, insolvency, labour and tax law. A good idea in theory > legal framework provides faster (within 48 hours), cheaper (maximum EUR 100) and fully digital company registration, simplified procedures throughout the company life cycle Did not expect this . If they deliver, th…

> If they deliver, this might actually make startups in europe a bit more common Just in time for AI to make startups no longer possible for labor capital to undertake as financial capital alone (plus the hyperscalers) take the reigns. Once there's a $1M Claude Code button to implement an entire business, it's over. Engineeers and business folks and the startup hustle are over. I was hoping open source would save us,…

Nah. Very few start-ups succeed or fail because of speed of writing code, or lack thereof. And there is huge opportunity in areas where LLMs are barely helpful at all: for example new low-cost guided missiles (disruptive innovation in military affairs).

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Post by RobotToaster »

surgical_fire wrote: post #26
dmitrygr wrote: post #4

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Hungary can leave the EU if it wants. Article 50 exists for this. If it wants to stay in the EU it has to adhere to the bloc rules. It is not forced to stay in the EU (and, in fact, getting rid of Orban would not be such a bad idea). Hungexit when?

Why leave when you can just keep breaking the rules and wait for the EU to kick you out?

Re: EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime

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Post by kkfx »

Another take to deny the need of a POLITICAL union. Anyway a large slice of the issue lay in the many different social security systems, the vastly different inheritance tax regimes (zero inheritance tax for some states, over 80% for others) and so on, having a company that exists as a state unto itself, but with employees from another state subject to its rules, doesn't simplify things; it only complicates them.

What is needed is the arrest of the Commission for a coup d'état and high treason, with its powers being transferred to the European Parliament.

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Post by maartenh »

surgical_fire wrote: post #26
dmitrygr wrote: post #4

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Hungary can leave the EU if it wants. Article 50 exists for this. If it wants to stay in the EU it has to adhere to the bloc rules. It is not forced to stay in the EU (and, in fact, getting rid of Orban would not be such a bad idea). Hungexit when?

Elections are happening soon (April). It's not clear at all Orban will win this round of elections, see e.g. https://apnews.com/article/hungary-orban-magyar-rival-rallie...

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Post by joe_mamba »

surgical_fire wrote: post #26
dmitrygr wrote: post #4

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Hungary can leave the EU if it wants. Article 50 exists for this. If it wants to stay in the EU it has to adhere to the bloc rules. It is not forced to stay in the EU (and, in fact, getting rid of Orban would not be such a bad idea). Hungexit when?

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Post by woodpanel »

surgical_fire wrote: post #26
dmitrygr wrote: post #4

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Hungary can leave the EU if it wants. Article 50 exists for this. If it wants to stay in the EU it has to adhere to the bloc rules. It is not forced to stay in the EU (and, in fact, getting rid of Orban would not be such a bad idea). Hungexit when?

Oh we all saw the true colors of the glorious and open and free-to-leave EU when Brits wanted to leave.
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