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Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by Beretta_Vexee »

ttoinou wrote: post #330
Beretta_Vexee wrote: post #74

A common mistake is to think that the EU is limited to a few large economies (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland), but this is not the case. Ensuring that a Croatian SME can win contracts with the French or Germans is one of the EU's priority objectives. This is how the EU has lifted millions of people out of poverty. This is a very tangible reality. It worked with East Germany, Spain, Poland, the Baltic States a…

The EU made us all poorer, it hasn't lifted many out of poverty

Go and explain that to a Romanian or a Latvian. Not so long ago, their citizens were prepared to give up everything to leave these countries. That is no longer the case. You're deluding yourself.

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Post by throwup238 »

indymike wrote: post #332
throwup238 wrote: post #323

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> A good example not having enough artillery ammunition. US military doctrine doesn’t use much artillery anymore so why would it still spend a lot on artillery ammunition? US uses maneuver warfare with air support and precision munitions. No one expected to provide a bunch of logistics support to a non-NATO ally that uses our Cold War enemy’s doctrine.

> No one expected to provide a bunch of logistics support to a non-NATO ally that uses our Cold War enemy’s doctrine. Rephrase: No one expected a real land war in Europe without establishing air superiority.

You can rephrase it all you like it doesn’t change the question: why would the US spend a bunch of money on artillery ammunition when it and its NATO allies don’t use artillery? Why waste money on something we don’t use?

The US armed forces make a lot of dumb choices with their funding but “underspending on artillery we don’t use” is not one of them. Even with hindsight it doesn’t make sense.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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mpol wrote: post #121
Lutger wrote: post #46

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For some definition of left. The interesting thing about the article is that all this EU regulatory control over corporations is in fact deeply capitalistic and the very reason for its existence, and in the corporations interest. Which is not what most EU citizens would consider being on the left of the political spectrum. The idea is: we need regulation to shape the market where businesses can compete freely to the…

Now you are twisting words :) Capitalism is like a cancer, it will grow endlessly and will become feudalism. Socialism is the government applying rules to capitalism, so it doesn't get out of control. US policy of neo-liberalism is growing in Europe too, which is giving problems.

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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

roenxi wrote: post #51

I quite like the article as far as it goes; but this begs the follow up question - is the strategy working? Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America. This should be an article about how Nokia or equivalent is approaching the US all wrong and not understanding the realities on the ground. I'd put energy in a similar fra…

If the decisions were being made in North America, iPhones would still be having a lightning connector.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by immibis »

doktrin wrote: post #310
davidmurdoch wrote: post #285

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See?

> See? I see you being deliberately antagonistic and strawmanning an opinion you disagree with.

I will never understand "I said $dumb_thing and the fact everyone downvoted me for saying $dumb_thing proves that $dumb_thing is right!"

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by hef19898 »

Aerroon wrote: post #241
Beretta_Vexee wrote: post #74

A common mistake is to think that the EU is limited to a few large economies (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland), but this is not the case. Ensuring that a Croatian SME can win contracts with the French or Germans is one of the EU's priority objectives. This is how the EU has lifted millions of people out of poverty. This is a very tangible reality. It worked with East Germany, Spain, Poland, the Baltic States a…

When Bulgarian truckers started outcompeting French truckers the EU came up with new rules to shut that down. Requiring that the truck has to go back to the country the company is from every 2 months is ridiculous. Not the driver, the vehicle.

And that is wrong why? Because at the same time, drivers have to be paid at least minimum wages in the countries they drive in.

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by ta1243 »

tristor wrote: post #300
ta1243 wrote: post #97

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You hate (not dislike, actively hate ) 861/2007, the European Small Claims procedure? and 1007/2011, you are really that opinionated on textile fibre names?

I realize you are using these examples as something so innocuous and inoffensive nobody would oppose such regulation. However, you clearly have not read either regulation in full and with due consideration of its effects. You can form your own judgments, but these regulations are not without tradeoffs. Take 1007/2011, on one hand this just centralizes and codifies some existing regulations to reduce country-specific…

I struggle to believe anyone actually hates such regulations, but to hate every single one of the thousands of regulations the EU government has passed over the last few decades suggests something somewhat deeper

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Post by capr »

NoGravitas wrote: post #258
paulsutter wrote: post #48

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Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit

Cookie banners are largely a form of malicious compliance.

"malicious compliance", an euphemism is straight out of 1984

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Post by ttoinou »

pbmonster wrote: post #131
imp0cat wrote: post #80

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Including USB-C? I find that hard to believe.

And roaming charges? Who doesn't like paying every time they go abroad for something that is now entirely free.

There's no free lunch

Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by hef19898 »

2devnull wrote: post #263
nonethewiser wrote: post #90

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> Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America. Seems like this holds true more generally. The manufacturing is happening in China, the decisions are being made in North America, and the regulation in the EU. Its like direct (US), produce (China), react (EU)

China can regulate more effectively than the EU. They have actual concentration camps. Look at Jack Ma. The EU has cookie banners. That’s not regulation, it’s a speed bump. Consider that the US cannot manufacture things because our environmental and labor regulations are so strict as to make it impossible. The idea that America doesn’t have regulations is not accurate. We have regulated the regulation, so it appears…

Are you actually callong for forced labor camps for certain people???
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