The Brussels Effect: How the EU Rules the World - TLDR News
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The EU is unique in its ability to unilaterally transform global markets, be it through its ability to set the standards in competition policy, food safety or the protection of data privacy. So, in today’s video we will be looking at how the EU rules the world through regulation, otherwise known as the Brussels effect.
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Every year you'll have some people criticizing the EU saying "To import XYZ you need to comply with 37 EU regulations."
But imagine every country had its own limited regulations (maybe only 10 for the sake of argument), then to sell to 27 member states the same company would still have to comply with 270 regulations!
In other words, it is way better to be part of a slightly over-regulated single market, than an underregulated diffracted market.
Just a shame that it comes with an unworkable political Union attached to it.
@@cobbler9113 unworkable?
@@katethegoat7507 Yes, it’ll never work in the long term. There’s no common belief or identity around being European which is what the EU needs in order to survive as a centralised state which is what it wants to become.
@@cobbler9113 there is common identity and belief when it comes to being European, what're you talking about?? I'm European, I identify more as European than I do as a part of my native country!
@@cobbler9113 There's plenty sense of European identity. Do a bit of research. Hint: you'll find it in Europe.
The Brussels effect is exactly why the UK leaving the EU was so reckless and.. pointless. It still has to comply with all EU regulations if it wants to trade with the EU - and even if it doesn't, because other countries set standards to comply with the EU laws anyways. The only thing that changed is that the UK went from being a rulemaker to being a ruletaker.
Brexit was a nationalists nutjobs idea, and they used abused and manipulated big data and used weapons grade communication tech against its citizens to convince the population to vote for it
Yep
Lmao. Brexit dumbasses left the EU thinking they'll get independence, only to still get shackled to EU regulations without any of the say of being part of the EU
Very much agree
Confirmation bias.
As a tech enthusiast and someone that works in the technology sector, I believe the E.U provides an essential service in this space. The E.U seems to be the only institution with enough influence willing to enact the regulations it does. And they provide a critical role in doing so. These large tech conglomerates have no financial incentive to not abuse their power and the E.U is the only instituation seemingly willing to regulate these spaces.
Sure, a fair few of the smaller nuances of these policies seem a little misguided in what they are trying to acheive, especially from a more tech litterate perspective, but overall the policies they implement are not only well intentioned but do acheive what they initially set out for. The U.S government could equally enact a lot of the important regulations the E.U has enacted but chooses not to, and it really shows just how much the U.S has let its self be brought out by the huge companies in its juristriction where the E.U, while not perfect, is doing a lot to protect the consumer and fight blatant abuses of power.
And it reached the point where people just blindly clock on "ACCEPT" every tie the message pops-up rendering that regulation virtually useless and really annoying.
Very well put!
@@MrToradragon What are you on about?
@@MrToradragon Agreed. That is one of those things that E.U didn't get right and bugs me too, especially considering the number of sites I visit on a regular basis, like you I quickly hit accept to get it off the screen.
But that was also one of their first regulations in the technology space, so I believe a little leniency is to be given. A practical solution to the cookie option could be to work with the w3 web foundation, chromium org, and Mozilla foundation and ask them to implement a standard for default cookie approval at the browser level.
But again, while far from perfect in its current state, it offers the consumers control over their privacy. Without the annoying pop-ups, we would have zero control over countless data brokers knowing our entire web usage.
@ I did that? That was unintentional and perhaps for the first time in my life.
The EU has mostly the highest standards, standards which are are good for its citizens but allow business to thrive. To adopt these standards is the right thing to do for any legitimate company. It is certainly not a declining power.
Well, how can any one claim its a declining power, when candidate countries increase and therefore member states over time will increase as well.
Its literally a growing power.
stagnate growth for the majority of it's economics for the last 20 y3ears, if that doesn't define declining, not sure what does.
@@davidrenton And what does growing economy means?
China? Like its housing bubble that bursted? Now people are not only homeless, they are in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth negative in wealth? Possibly ruined life that will jump off the bridge to end it?
EU doesn't play the game of Growth and bubble burst. Stability is more important. This is why its a regulative power.
@@davidrenton we are rich af, a stagnate growth isn’t really a problem for us as it is for Russia or any 3rd world country. Obviously our potential of growing isn’t comparable to the rest of the world that has decades to develope first to even reach our standards
@@davidrenton Two problems: Growth from high numbers will always be less impressive in terms of percentage. Population of EU is aging and there are some significant problems connected to that.
But there is as well huge problems with regulations that are doing more harm than good and choking both, economy and society, yet regulations that would help with some issues are not enacted at all. So we have EU messing with carbon credit market turning it into speculative one, EU making insane regulations regarding energy standards which will never pay back. Yet it does nothing to solve issues that are related to divergence of GDP and minimal wage in new member states. So while some of them are quite close to average GDP per capita in EU, minimal wage and thus all other wages in economy are not even close. So we ended in situation that some countries have insanely low unemployment, but only at cost of too low wages, and in some countries we have insane unemployment of young people and they will rather stay on welfare than to move somewhere where they can find job.
EU is not seen as a military superpower not because it does not have military strength (combined member states are extremely comparable to the US army and their strength will only increase, seeing the Russian invasion on Ukraine), but because most of it's member states are not really interested (anymore) with projecting power for two reasons:
1. We learned it is expensive. Even colonial empires gained most of their power through economic and not military means.
2. Projecting power militarily makes people hate you. It is simply more efficient to project economic power.
I think it was more about the horror of WW2 on the continent that made people dislike the idea of a strong military. Besides, the US usually fought on our behalf after WW2 so there was not really a need.
But now with the war in Ukraine that all might just have been an illusion
> Projecting power militarily makes people hate you.
For reference, see ISIS - USA relations.
@@tomlxyz The US has kinda also been isolationist. We have been forced into this role by post ww2, cold war, and economic reasons. Most of the US people don't want a large military, we don't want bases everywhere. It's the banks and elite that do.
How do you take a paragraph to state that we learned war is expensive
Ok, but definitely not comparable to the USA.
The vast majority of European countries don’t spend 2% of the gdp on there military (the exceptions are the U.K., Greece, Poland, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania).
The USA spends 3.4% of its gdp on its military and has an economy considerably bigger than the EU.
EU gdp nominal in 2021 was $15.5 trillion USD, USA gdp in 2021 was $23 trillion USD.
The gap is widening, EU gdp in 2022 is expected to be around $16.2 trillion USD, USA gdp in 2022 is expected to be around $25 trillion USD.
This is why the Brexit "getting back control & paddling our own canoe" message, while seemingly appealing to some, was and still is complete nonsense.
Those dirty lying populists
Not only that, this is why the EU will not and can not allow the UK to jeopardize its Single Market.
Brexit is bad idea by royal nationalists of uk. Of course it has its benefits but as you said it is non sensical decision. Why would you want to leave organisation? Organisation are good, their lets to avoid dictatures and manipuliation of course decisions can be a bit extended but that is the idea of organisation. If they are unite the decisions can go faster as recent examples. EU sins are know and its benefits so its trustful
In all fairness, they gave away control, because in the EU they at least had a say on these regulations. Now they have nothing
They even made own laws without the EU and when people didn't like them claimed it wasn't in their control but rather had to do it because of the EU
I think EU is hardly a declining power nowdays. On the contrary in recent years the benefits of the EU have been outlined more clearly than ever before. It certainly isn't perfect, never will be. But certain events such as Brexit or the ongoing war is showcasing that despite the flaws EU is very much vital for our continent and it seems for some key aspects of global affairs as well.
With all these crises ongoing and expected to get worse, such as climate, energy, food and alike, were we each to our own it would be doomsday scenario for each of us, but working together through the EU I think we may just about get through it all. ✌️
Yeah, the statement at the beginning that the EU is viewed as a declining power really caught me of guard.
Yeah, I think the only place the EU was viewed as a declining power was in English nationalistic tabloids which have a long history of anti-EU content. I was immediately like “What ? Your opening premise is completely false.”
@@mike140298 maybe the EU in its current format. I can see it changing into a tiered organisation whereby there’s a number of fully fledged EU states, Macron proposed this a number of weeks back
We do not need Brussel
Agree (German, here), the EU has (mostly) been a remarkable project of liberal, democratic values and institutions, peace, free markets (/ trade, at times) and globalism. Additionally, it has been a useful forum for European cooperation.
My criticisms of the EU lie mainly in its structure (which has democratic deficits) and how institutions are designed/run (like the ECB, for example) - or specific member states' actions (as Hungary’s closeness to Putin).
"A declining power full of stuffy but ineffective bureaucrats" perfectly describes the UK!
As an Englishman, I completely agree.
It's like the black hole calling the kettle black.
sounds like the UN as well...
@@davidty2006 Well the UN never had much power to begin with anyway.
Bojo's dragging us into the drain!
9:58 - "So, it's fair to say that the EU is a regulatory superpower that shapes the world's economy but without most people even noticing. Few people realize that EU standards determine the pirvacy policies of big American tech companies..." and there lies the big freaking problem. A lot, lot, lot of people have no idea how much the EU does and how it benefits them and the world. When the EU does a bad thing everyone hears about it, but when they do all sorts of good shit in the background so few people have any idea. And they shoud. They should know.
But is this regulatory work necessarily good? If it’s so opaque how can we be sure about its content?
I am of the firm belief that the biggest crisis the EU has is not migrants, covid or anything similar, but instead the EU’s bad communication and lack of ability to convey what it is and how it’s affecting the average EU citizen. Lots of people are not entirely sure what the EU is and how it operates, which makes it all the more easy for it to be targeted as a source of problems in national politics.
@@kosatochca "is this regulatory work necessarily good" not at all. The now repealed regulation on the curvature of bananas was silly at best. In the examples discussed above, companies worldwide complied, not only because of the EU market weight, but because the regulation was considered sensible.
@@FranFerioli The banana example is something mentioned all over the media however the regulation made actually sense from a practical point. Soon after the EU dropped it for pr reasons the industry made similar regulations on their own.
@@seagullskunk I can believe there were reasons for straightening curvy bananas. But to me this story shows that regulation should be used sparingly and after great reflection.
With great power comes great responsibility...
I’ve never been happier to live in an EU country, I hope it continue to grow and become even more stable.
For real, when I was younger I used to look at USA as the best place to live in the world. There’s still lots to do for a perfect Union but we can already see it’s benefits :)
@@aleixcompany3974 We really do have everything, for me best is that we can visit any landscape possible within our own Union. I can visit beautiful mountains of Austria, to the beaches of Greece to the Green pastures of Ireland with no stress and don’t even need a passport or visa. We are blessed to have such an ability.
Bro I live in Moldova and I wanted to live in EU for years and yet it is not going to happen anytime soon
@@sorin_channel This has not much to do with EU. Look at the Ballakns they are getting close. So don't lose hope. Moldova did a huge step forward a few days ago. :)
@@sorin_channel Traitor.
Every now and then I see some sensationalist YT video title about how 15% of your coffee is actually dirt, or how honey isn't actually honey. Quite often, these videos were made by Americans for Americans and will include a line about "Oh yeah, this is literally illegal in the EU btw, so it doesn't happen there"
wait, what is the honey in america?
@@bastian182 flavoured glucose
@@bastian182 They filter out the pollen. Without the pollen you can't test where the honey came from or if it's actually bee produced. It seems to be a way to sell illegal Chinese honey. The illegal Chinese honey is laced with sugar syrup.
@@bastian182 syrup
Most of what is sold in the US as 'food' wouldn't be permitted in the EU.
When you were created as an organisation for peace and compromising between nation states, you get REALLY good at compromising and setting some ground rules! EU stands firm, not through military might, but through rules and consent of others.
consent? lol
@@yurichtube1162 I mean yeah, literally every country has to agree unanimously, it wouldn't work without consent. And if you don't like that blame your politicians who agreed with the EU policy
It what Europe can do once it unites a little 💪 The EU will continue on a good path and rise as a 4th power to America, Russia and China one day
@@yurichtube1162 You have information 425 million people don’t have? Please enlight us.
EU is a soft power power house
Why isn't French Guiana painted blue on the map? It is formally a EU territory using Euro as a currency.
I guess that is just a mistake on the video producer's part.
@@geometryemperor yeah it wouldn't be a TLDR video if there was no map mistake 😂
Aren't St Pierre and Miquelon-Langlade just off New Foundland also part of the EU?
@@myonline1985 it's an overseas collectivity which are different from overseas regions (like Fr. Guiana or Réunion) and therefore not part of the EU (same way Tahiti and New Caledonia aren't either)
@@prplt
S.t Pierre and Miquelon is in fact a part of the European Union, but they have a LOT of exceptions to their membership.
The EU doesn’t have the economic might of China? I think you need to have a look at those numbers again, they are WAY bigger, and have a less isolated market. A company can survive failing in China, but not in the EU, at least if we’re talking global type companies.
and China's pop will crash so hard in the next decades, the EU will look youthfull.
Yeah that was a weird comment, EU and Chinas GDP are roughly the same size.
One major difference is the EU has 1 third the population of China which means EU consumers are on average 3 times wealthier which makes the EU far more economically powerful.
the eu is way too reliant on the chinese economy tho
@@konstus This is often stated. But it is kinda nonsense.
Yes EU relies on China . China relies on the EU. Both rely on the US and vice versa. It's called globalism.
@@konstus it works both ways, China is totally dependant on the EU and US markets.
Well, here in the EU we do love our standards, from cheese hole size to electrical apliances.
even Casu martzu (Cheese with Maggots) is banned from Europe even though its a Sardinian Cuisine.
@@williamalfonso1373 That's nothing to do with the cheese part of it, everything to do with the fact that those maggots are still alive and could carry unknown pathogens.
And now you know why the EU citizens heavily protested against the free trade Zone with US and Canada. That would have given power away from consumers and back to corporations.
The EU takes powers away from consumers. By not allowing them to choose. By treating them like infants that need looking after.
You may want mummy to protect you. That's fine.
.. and embraces chlorinated chicken + gene edited food
@@Blabla-od7vt
Chlorinated chicken is fine.
The EUs own food safety entity said so. Explicitly.
It's just a phrase used to scare unknowledgeable people who don't bother to read before forming an opinion. Because that works. Evidently.
@@danielwebb8402 Chlorinated shit covered chicken, yum.
@@mementomori7825
Nearly all pre prep'd salad containing items have chlorine. Toothpaste. Many countries water.
Again. Is used as a strap line to scare the un informed rather than having the actual protectionism argument.
The EU needs to change its "marketing strategy". A lot of people just don't care for it and would happily leave it, but mostly not because they think it's a bad idea, but because they don't know enough about the EU and what it does for them.
It's driven by elites who don't care about popular opinion
My position on the EU for over a decade has been exactly this: The no. 1 largest, most pressing and important issue the whole EU project faces is it's inability to market itself properly. Call it propaganda, call it public relations, call it marketing, I don't care. Just create a freaking European Ministry of it, fund it with at least 0.5% of the Brussels' annual budget and watch 80% of EU's problems melt the f*ck away like a snowman on a sunny beach.
Exactly. The truth is most people have no clue how the EU works. And particularly older people don’t see a lot of tangible benefits from it which lead them to be very easily tricked into a anti-EU position
I think the apple USB C "war" has been a great boost for EU 's PR.
I mean thats the only thing the US is really good at
EU managed to make everyone (*cough* Apple) to finally adapt USB C. That alone is already a good point for me, thanks EU.
Yeah, they are the stagnation continent after all. If someone develops a proprietary technology that is much better than USB-C that company won't be able to make the switch because of EU regulations, but don't worry. Europe is losing relevance in the world economy every year and its demographics are shit, soon it will be an open air asylum and nobody is going to care about their stupid regulations.
Love this effect. Imagine USA or China would set the standards…
Neither China nor the USA care about its people.
Goodness forbid the USA setting food standards. Its bad enough we have Chlorine chicken.
@@williamalfonso1373 funny enough there haven’t been any studies showing that chlorinated chicken from US food industries has enough chlorine to hurt consumers. It’s actually a great example of predatory trade practices by the EU.
The US once did set the standards after the Breton Woods Agreement. And Europe, along with the global financial system, was rebuilt. This eventually changed with the liberalism of Reagan and Thacher in the 80s. So technically it was American hegemony that is in part responsible for rebuilding Europe, funny isn’t it?
@@ckr3167 funny enough studies show that chlorinating chicken does not get rid of the bacteria, and is therefor riskier for consumers than unchlorinated chicken raised at higher standards:
Tldr: chlorination is not the problem, but what it tries to cover up.
My position on the EU for over a decade has been exactly this: The no. 1 largest, most pressing and important issue the whole EU project faces is it's inability to market itself properly. Call it propaganda, call it public relations, call it marketing, I don't care. Just create a freaking European Ministry of it, fund it with at least 0.5% of the Brussels' annual budget and watch 80% of EU's problems melt the f*ck away like a snowman on a sunny beach.
I sincerely recommend professor Anu Bradfords lecture on this here on youtube. She goes to a much greater detail and gives more mindblowing examples. My favourite is Honeywell and GE merger. Both of these companies are American and have no obligation to uphold EU law. And they are huge, big players with extensive economic impact and lobbying network, they can basically shape US politics to their will. The merger was OKayed by US agencies and praised and supported by many US politicians.
Then the EU said that it would breach EU anti-trust legislation and therefore disqualify these companies from supplying Airbus and the ESA. And the merger was cancelled...
Can you give the link? Would be much appreciated.
The degree of mindless obedience of most people who've commented on this is staggering. Of course, some of the EU regulations are pretty good: it's hard to see anything wrong with the competition regs. On the other hand, the GDPR is a mess. It just means that the internet is slower now, because you have to 'agree' to things like cookies first - and if you don't, you can't use the site, so it's a pointless exercise...
Meanwhile, there's clearly no enforcement of the laws preventing retailers from demanding unrealistic prices from suppliers: just ask a farmer - they've been throttled by the supermarkets for 50 years by now... (I'll probably get trolled for this comment, but what the heck).
Its nice that the uk volunteers to test the benefits of the eu
I love the wordplay in the title, their rules for the world really do help make everything generally better. Thank you, Europe!
Like it or not, EU is the most civilized major governing body in the world, so it's good to follow its practices and regulations, because they make sense.
I like it.
"civilized" isnt a great word if you're trying to convince others that it's practices are great
I love it, one more great reason so be proud of being a European 🇪🇺 we are making good decisions that improves efficiency and gets rid of impractical and harmful practices and our courts are among the most free and just courts anywhere on Earth, our values are molded and perfected over thousand years and our civilization is model to any society that is trying to make one for theirselves. Most elements and molecules and celestial object have been discovered by Europeans and this is no coincidence
Of course there are exceptions, but generally speaking their legislation seems the best
@@mihkelmatsina1431 I agree with you, but I am not trying to convince anybody and that's why it's ok to be honest.
'The EU is a Declining Power." I would argue that decline is a matter of perspective, I would say that the rest of the world is catching up, intensifying it's economic potential especially in East Asia.
I geopolitical terms I would argue that Europe was weakest during the cold war, with Eastern Europe occupied by the Soviets and the West occupied by the Anglo Americans (largely).
Now the EU is a power in its own right that is definitely byzantine but it is rapidly centralising into a federal state. If it can centralise its fiscal policy and decentralise it's local law making capacity I believe that a lot of the criticisms it faces could be averted.
Demografia
How exactly is it "rapidly centralising into a federal state"? A whole lot of of nations are against that. Hell we can't even agree on an European army. The leader that supports a closer union (Emmanuel Macron) just lost the parliamentary election. The EU is doing pretty good but saying that it's rapidly centralising is a stretch.
Also, the "declining power" is mostly coming from the people that very much don't like the "people's first" policies of EU, if not are outright hostile to the whole European continent (like Russia)
That is the biggest problem of EU. Trade laws across conutries is a great idea but everything els is plain stupit what works in Franch Spain ect dose not work in Denmark or the otherway around.
@@pellept0327 while I agree, it may be argued that some of the EU's problems stem from "too little" Europe, rather than "too much" Europe.
For example, the EU largely lacks the ability to have large, internal monetary transfers across member states.
This is in contrast to the US, where a wealthy state (e.g. NY or Texas) will transfer wealth to a poorer state (e.g. Mississippi) as they're all American... not quite the same in the EU where Germans (or the European North) may not wish to send large amounts of money to Greece or Spain (or the European South).
Whether "more" Europe would solve this... maybe? Maybe not.
The EU is the best counterweight we have against rampant American capitalism
Hence hardly any significant world wide inventions etc have come from the EU relative to the US the past 30 years.
the eu is barely any different in foreign policies than us. still colonialist still fcking over poorer countries. the only difference is internal policies in each state in the eu
@@danielwebb8402 except that eu countries take part in most of these intervention
See this one even admits its all about control and communism which also explains why its mostly the liberal left who support the EUSSR
@@danielwebb8402 Currently ITER (major nuclear fusion energy experiment) is being built in France and Biontech (german company) developed mRNA vaccines
Makes so much sense. Just imagine how silly it'd be to actively abandon EU standards, especially if your nation was so close to Europe. It'd be even stupider if a nation once made those rules... 🤣🙄
imagine how stupid it would be to not actually have and practice democracy but to be run by incompetent bureaucrat's from Brussels, don't be said the UK made the smart choice, and you are still in the bar just hearing about the iceberg.
why do Europeans talk so much about brexit? Even more than the British people
@@pasdpasse439 It's fun to rub it in the faces of the brits.
@@pasdpasse439 Simple: UK was in a mess and need economical help, country was financially into a bad mood. EU accept it, pay to help UK and rise it to a new economical power. Now UK is at its peek and say byebye to the rest of European, through away all ester emigrates (EU citizen) and want to be a fiscal paradise just near EU (Singapour on thames).
EU countries just feel betrayed
@@pasdpasse439 Adding to @Inwe David: Also on political level: the last years with Brexit they completely ridiculed the EU and its countries, saying how stupid some countries are, etc. So not being entirely friendly. It would've been different if they just went "it was fun, but we think we'll leave now, good luck!", but they didn't.
TL;DR: the EU helped the UK, a friend in need, which then backstabbed them while name calling other countries and ridiculing them. So the problems in the UK now feel like revenge to the rest of the EU.
The UE also rules directly about the common market also of the EEA/EFTA, so the map is even a bit more big (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
US Congress: We won’t regulate.
EU: Fine! I’ll do your job!
Perhaps the US are more into capitalism rather than communism
@@Salfordian regulations support capitalism, capitalism without regulations quicly turns into oligarchy
@@hphp31416 No markets tend to thrive with less regulations as history has proven and the stagnation in the EU for years now also confirms this, its only going to get worse in the regime
@@Salfordian Perhaps the US are more into turbo capitalism rather than capitalism ?
@@veryincognito6776 Well they're doing something the EU can't due to all the red tape, I mean just think about Northern Ireland having 1500 more added since the UK left, 1500!!!!
That was quite an enlightening video. I have noticed some of these trends, but putting them all together really shows the big picture.
I sincerely recommend professor Anu Bradfords lecture on this here on youtube. She goes to a much greater detail and gives more mindblowing examples. My favourite is Honeywell and GE merger. Both of these companies are American and have no obligation to uphold EU law. And they are huge, big players with extensive economic impact and lobbying network, they can basically shape US politics to their will. The merger was OKayed by US agencies and praisedand supported by many US politicians.
Then the EU said that it would breach EU anti-trust legislation and therefore disqualify these companies from supplying Airbus and the ESA. And the merger was cancelled...
I see it, but there is a few things missing out of this bias video.
it was enlightening indeed... about this untrusty and weird YT infochannel
If they really force Apple to put USB C on the iPhone then the EU has been worth it imo
No apparently Apple will move to wireless charging, they won't be bullied by the EU
@@Salfordian Apple will find ways so the EU can bully them. Only a matter of time.
@@Salfordian Everyone will eventually move to wireless, that isn't some big brain move by Apple.
The technology is still far off and until then they'll comply with daddy, and if they make their product's wireless charging exclusive to Apple products then the EU will just regulate them again.
EU wins.
@@Salfordian And when the EU start regulating wireless charging, as it already said it will, once the technology matures?
What then, Apple leaves the smartphone market?
@@Salfordian I think that sentence doesn't make sense.
If they're going to move to wireless charging, it means they've been pressed to either change the charger, or take it out. Had exactly the effect it was intended for.
Even so, I don't think Apple is going to move to wireless charging, it's a thing that we're not ready to do yet, it's not at all convenient. All the people I know who have an iphone over 2 years old carry a powerbank because the apple battery sucks, how are you going to charge you phone with a powerbank ?
This, and the fact that if they put 100% wireless charging, they will only lose customers because they will force people to buy a charger that costs 50 euros, that is slower than wired chargers, it will prohibit all use of wired headphones, and they will take away quality of life because of the powerbank thing
In Japan I've seen many industries displaying their ISO9001 certification right aside their brand even at the entrance of their factories
Bussiness likes standardization ... especially in a country which is fond of cleanliness and order.
Honestly one day the EU should just find a way to invite Japan to the EU hehe.
ISO isnt europe though, the "I" stands for International
@@fluoroantimonictippedcruis1537 true, and yet Europe is the only area where ISO certification is often mandatory to sell product across the continent: many countries like Japan, Cina and the USA tend to stick to their internal regulations.
Due to the fact that the single nations inside EU delegate to ISO for certification empowered that organisation a lot
@@Leptospirosi It's not mandatory because standards are not laws......
Codes are laws, like a building code, but standards are just that...standards. The EU does the exact same thing, their standards which are codified in their laws are seperate from ISO standards.
What you didn't even touch on is that EU regulations serve as a framework for other countries who don't have the manpower to write complicated legislation and enforce said legislation. You see this with the GDPR rules which have been adapted by other countries who could never have done that on their own.
Also the EU has served as inspiration for the African Union
He did mention the GDPR point
AU is possibly best thing out of this in this century.... too early to see yet, but it gonna help world a lot, just like EU should slowly help its members fair in global trade competition
The EU a declining power? Who said that? The Daily Mail? 😂
Its pretty clear that if large and powerfull countries like France, Italy and Spain (see the current polls) are voting more and more eurosceptic the power of the EU shrinks.
@@michieldubbeldam6732 Italy has a pro eu government and president, France has a pro eu president… Spain too
Anglo mainstream media
@@michieldubbeldam6732 Jeff Failor, is it you? 😂😂
@@kw2142 it’s true tho.
i think the greatest acomplishment of the EU is sheer existence. So many diverse cultures working together. Its like watching a couple of people leaning on each other. As i dont think it would be possible if these were growing economies. The distinct capital interests would tear the compromise apart.
EU was established on economic and trade grounds; policy and politics followed much later. Very big factor of succes is common civilization. When people from different countries and even cultures meet, they can talk, negotiate and make agreements successfully because words have the same meaning everywhere in EU.
@@anitagorse9204 Not really, EU was born with political intent since 1957
Yup and unfortunately just like anything that starts looking a little too good, it makes other people starting wanting it too and wondering why their government can’t do it and that threatens the power of said governments which start wanting to do anything to destroy it. Aka why we start seeing so much conflicts in Europe. Divide to conquer. And sadly many fall for it.
I am so lucky to live in the EU, I cant imagine living on other places. My life's good, I have everything that I need and enough of it and so much more, I can see various european cultures without spending a single euro on visas and can elect leaders for my country and therefore for the EU. What do you want more?
Nothin's perfect, but the EU is very high on the ladder. It is a shame that the flaws are shout out loudly and the various benefits drown in it.
And thanks to this vid, I can imagine the strenght of the bloc. Imagine an strong european army, nobody would dare to thread it.
So, the EU is certainly not a declining power, instead it is one hell of a rising power!
With the most beautiful flag ever seen :)
You're delusional. The EU wouldn't even exist without the American taxpayer and the American military...you'd all be speaking Russian.
I mean, EU's gdp is in the league of China's and US' and if you put together the military spending of every EU nation you would get something like 400/500 billions euro, which is half of what the US spends and more than the chinese budget of the military.
If I’m not wrong here china’s gdp is ~14 trillions and the EU’s is ~17 trillion so they do have a larger total gdp
Especially now that Germany steps its military game up and France with its already powerful military.
@@nicolasfrancois6552 Exactly, US, China and the EU are comparable in terms of gdp
@@blakedake19 Well i think you the US economy is by far the most impressive. I mean the EU has over 100 million more people yet our economy is much bigger and China is nearly 5 times our size and we still have a whole Japan size economy between us lol.
@@nicolasfrancois6552 I think your still using old figures. Chinas economy is bigger than EU at 19 trillion compared to the EU 17 trillion and the US is at 25 trillion.
The Brussels Effect is the best thing about the EU.
That is just one of its two Parliaments
Schengen tho
The best thing about the EU was, is and will always be peace within its borders. People tend to forget that.
@@philipkoene5345 It creates hostility just look at Eastern Europe, like most socialist regimes EU can't help but expand using other peoples money, well if the EUSSR is so great give the other Western EU colonies public referendums
@@Salfordian first, look up the meaning of some of those big words - for example colony or socialist. You are using them wrong
5:19 “In the EU, privacy is considered a fundamental right”
US listener here, wish it was here, too
it is lmao
@@rorypaul153 Currently, yes, but it’s not constitutionally guaranteed, and it’s often not prioritized (see the lack of action around bulk data harvesting/scraping, sale, etc)
@@Jig_up there’s literally a data privacy bill in congress right now with bipartisan support
@@rorypaul153 1. I’m not sure if the draft was released at the time I had posted this, but it was in the least rather recent and 2. It’s in congress, it is not yet law. Finally, perhaps I’m just a cynic, but it feels as though it’s unlikely to pass in any meaningful form-then again, I hardly expect them to pass anything at all. I’ll admit, mostly at the time of posting I was mostly just upset that Roe v. Wade had just been overturned (or maybe the draft had just leaked, I can’t remember when exactly this was), and that part of the opinion for the overturning (I at least believe) involved the fact the word “privacy” is at least not explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution
@@Jig_up Roe v. Wade was overturned because it was never a legitimate Federal issue...it is a State issue.
The EU is very much not perfect. But I'm happy it's able to make the world a little bit better by making companies not abuse their customers or harm them with harmful chemicals and such.
Like VW did?
Really! how many covid shots did the EU dish out?
I like how both of you deliberately ignore the "The EU is very much not perfect" part. The EU's regulatory endeavours may not always pan out the way they wanted, but they certainly do more than most other countries and are arguably more successful at it.
@@Root174 Yet you ignore the part about making companies not abuse their customers! Come on.
The EU is corrupted to the core by corporate lobbying. Those within the EU fighting for what the EU should be need all the help they can get. The way I see it, they are losing. Excusing the bad elements of the EU by saying 'its not perfect' isn't good enough for me
@@ltmund That is not ignoring it has problems, but looking at it favourably, seeing more good than bad, while still acknowledging it has problems.
Error at 7:15 - it's not enough to move your data out of the EU "to circumvent the GDPR". The genius of GDPR is that EU citizens are protected no matter where the data is stored. So the only option to get around the GDPR is to not have EU customers
There's an example of that effect that should speak to everybody: cookies.
For a few years now, it has been illegale for websites to use cookies collectif data without user aproval. That's why there's that message about consenting to use cookies on most sites now. And the strategy that was used to circumvent that was to put an easy button "accept all cookies" and, if you didn't want them, you had to manually disable each type of cookie, which was too annoying for most users.
But now, the EU also imposed websites to put an easy "refuse all non essential cookies". And I don't know if every websites do that outside of the EU as well (so I don't know if that's really a Brussels effect per say), but that's at least an example of visible EU regulations. It's good that the EU isn't afraid to regulate it's market for its citizens. And I think that's the biggest benefit of being in the EU: you live in a place where companies obey the rules and not the reverse (which would't be the case if EU countries were disunited because they wouldn't have enough leverage individually to pick up a fight against Google for example).
It's not surprising that 500 million strong market of relatively wealthy customers can throw a lot of weight around. Another advantage is internal self-sufficiency in many areas - UE doesn't strictly need to import or export many products. If you want to trade with them... well - YOU want to trade with them.
"Another advantage is internal self-sufficiency in many areas - UE doesn't strictly need to import or export many products."
Wtf? EU does need to export A LOT but it also needs to import A LOT since there's practically no industry and we're still heavily dependent on gas and oil. If the EU didn't export or import in large quantities how dafuq would it be a global market?
@@bananasaur5209 We literally have everything we could need inside of the EU, its just easier and more profitable to trade.
@@suicidalbanananana You have basically no raw resources for starters, of course i doubt the EU regulaes how things like cobalt are mined in places like the congo because it's own corporations cant contend the ethics of it. Of course such a rule would be relevant if the EU was actually big into making batteries in the first place, which they arent...that would be China, SK, Japan and the US. Not to mention the thousands of other things Europe doesnt manuafcture or doesnt make enough of such that it needs to import them.
Except natural gas from Russian, but I cannot see how that could ever be a problem ; )
@@FranFerioli You can't manufacture things unless you have recources, of which europe has effectively none, so you rely on other countries for imports. On top of that, while europe has world class finished industrial goods (or i should say germany does), some of it's components often come out of asia. Self sufficiency implies from earth to consumer, it's done in one country. Basically no country is like that at all, but if there was ever a nation that was as close to such a concept without actually being it, it would be the US.
Despite my username, I am an American, and I have never really seen the EU as a declining power. I’ve not exactly seen it as a “sleeping giant” and more as a gentle giant. If the EU really came out swinging, it has the money and manpower to do some serious damage, but it doesn’t. I guess the “gentle” part of gentle giant comes from me looking over as a liberal American and gazing longingly at your comparatively universal social and political leftism
The world needs to stop having this need for creating and seeing “serious damage”. That’s what the EU learnt long ago
Eu has the biggest role to undermine the overwhelming and dangerous Power big tech and companies has and use to monopoly the world. Thank to EU regulation it means life could be easier not Only for European,but for others continent,and even for US citizen (like the antitrust laws and how data and privacy is a basic right online)
Another excellent example of Europe setting standards would be mobile phones : 3G and then 4G standards were initially based in 1999 on GSM standards defined in Europe in the late 1980s by European Telecommunications organizations.
The EU is definitely not a declining power, its an emerging superpower. The fact that the Brussels effect is a thing proves that. Only ones who think the EU is declining or "collapsing" are nationalists and hostile outside interests (russia).
A 2% growth in the EU is MASSIVELY bigger than a 150% growth in a developing country, or group of countries. Not to mention the EU will be expanding in the near future adding tens of millions more to the population, more natural resources, new trade and new markets.
AND not to forget that as the eastern EU members continue to develop and reach the same levels as western members, the economic influence of the EU in the world will just increase.
Further in the future there's also the possibility of the UK rejoining which will just strengthen the continent even more.
The EU is far from perfect, it needs internal reforms to become more efficent, it needs further unification and eventual federalisation. But for all its flaws its by FAR the best organisation that exists today and has ever existed, the greatest peace project in human history in my opinion. The EU has proven itself again and again to care more about the citizens than they do big corporations, about the well being of people, of fair trade, of peace and cooperation than any other government on the planet.
India and Ćhina are the super powers of the world, respectively almost 1.5 billion inhabitants.
@@Myanmartiger921 China also play a role there in Africa, building roads and stuff.
Fantastic video. Thank you
If 27 country with different language and culture are able to sit down and agree on regulations and rules on trade and good business pratice, it is normal that such a realisation got oversea influence.
Well, actually 5-6 countries decide while the others conform out of servitude
Also, the quality of the law that the EU produces is pretty good, i.e. few loopholes.
It does take a bunch of brains to write good law, and smaller countries don't always have it.
*Ode an die Freude intensifies*
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The EU acts like a state but officially isn’t a state, it acts more like a confederation but has some characteristics of a federation. Fair to say the existence of the EU confuses a lot of people. 😂😂
It lacks a lot of things that make it a state.
There is no other entity on the world like the EU.
The EU is unique
@@shittymcrvids3119 sort of hoping the EU makes up its mind 😂😂
It's halfway between a state and an alliance. A very interesting and successful experiment.
For the first point can we give Magrethe Vestager the EU commisioner of competition a big applause, shes been really active in fining tons of companies such as google, apple and microsoft
The EU has also power on another point: Standardization. For instance all chargers will soon become USB-C (I think TLDR did a video on this some time ago). As it's cheaper for manufacturers to have only one production line, this will then become the de-facto standard in other countries as well, even if they don't force a standard. The same goes for the chargers on Electric Vehicles, where the EU also forces a standard which will most likely be installed in every car worldwide (or at least converters will be included) because it's cheaper to do so than to have two systems.
I am super pro-European project, but EU is far from ruling
And just FYI, EU has larger economy than China.
I hear this all the time “the EU can’t compete economically” the EU meanwhile has gdp (PPP) similar to that of China and the US. The only reason why the EU can’t compete is because in China certain people hold so much wealth they decide the direction of the entire nation. And same goes to the US where this happens too but in a different way. The EU has massive companies and massive amounts of wealth so yes they can surely compete economically. But yes they don’t have the speed that capitalist america does or state run china has
The problem in the EU nowadays for economical policies is that they got to the Euro too fast: you've very different economies (just look at Germany and Italy) who follow the same regulations. Meanwhile in the USA and China, it's 1 country with 1 economy, so they can make their economical policies much faster and without thinking too much. But the EU has the potential, so all we can do is hope that the economy becomes one in the future.
@@randomguy9515 compare the economies of California and Mississippi, the difference is bigger than between Germany and Italy. Still, same currency.
@@neodym5809 I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's hard and not as efficient.
@@neodym5809 well Germany and Bulgaria then
@@neodym5809 actually Bulgaria is not in the euro zone, but Greece is and much poorer than Germany / Italy
This was brilliant and fascinating. One of my favourites ever, and I watch most stuff you put out. Great work.
Very good improvement in Voice and Intro! Keep on doing like now!
Surely this is just a result of the EU being the major market with the strictest regulations?
If China or the US has more stringent regulations, international business would follow those. It's about maximising coverage. I guess the balancing act will be making sure the cost of adhering to regulations stays lower than the value of the market i.e. it remains "worth it".
Isn't the EU's internal market also just the major market in comparison to either of those two?
@@scifino1 Yes, but if the US or China were to take strictest regulations, those two markets would be important enough for it to be worth it for companies to adapt to the strictest one. Adapting all of the production of a company to stricter regulations from a small market is uselessly expensive, and it's quickly more profitable to just not sell anything in this market, or make the effort to adapt just a small part of the production, but US and China are big enough market for it to be worth it for companies to just adapt the whole production, because having two completely different line of productions obeying different regulations is also expensive
I like that your channel gives us quite a bit more thought out videos. You don't just take the mainstream understanding of the subject and put some animation and narration over it, like many others do. Your best example for this is the EU leader video, where you didn't just take the mainstream approach of calling France and Germany Europe's leaders. Keep it up.
What video is that exactly? What's the thumbnail? Would be interested in watching it
Excellent video. Congrats👏👏👏
Great video!
The EU is actually improving standards all around the word
If EU is good for something, its health and food regulations.
Data regulation and European Economic Area (EEA) too!
The UK's are actually higher
@Somewhatskeptical No in the real world its called freedom of choice but communism doesn't work like that does it comrade
@@Salfordian Data regulation in the UK's is higher? Are you joking? Cambridge Analytica? Julien Assange?
What have you smoked?
Schengen!!
Amazing and insightful video!
Good Job!!! I’m Brazilian and live in Rio de Janeiro and love it your job! Congratulations!
The biggest problem of EU is that it's not a federation. It cannot order a country to do anything. Can only recommend.
Which prevents it from becoming a dictatorship
no certainty but I'm wondering if it isn't also it's strength as it can't just pass laws like politicians can in countries just to help themselves politically... they have to make sense or they will be refused.
the president of our country often said, it's a policy out of Brussel and Ursula von der Leyen also refused to make the SMS between her en the chef of Pfizer public.
... and their weird digital identity plans.
The EU/world map you use in these videos show Liechtenstein (160 km²) but not Malta (316 km²). can't we have a small blue dot for Malta please ? :)
tax havens should be kicked out : p
@@Blabla-od7vt Any legal basis for your claims? or you just enjoy shit coming out of your mouth. and so much for the european spirit. We do not kick out our family members. We didn't kick out hungary poland france portugal. We are a community that values negotiations working out our differences.
@@Blabla-od7vt Liechtenstein isn't exactly innocent then
@@Blabla-od7vt Taxation is theft.
@@tomlxyz It absolutely is not indeed.
Great video as always :)
I think the EU needs to keep on upping it's game on fines and real hard felt sanctions for serious breaches. And keep investing in real leading technical competence to advice regulators. Ensure sanctions are metered on the basis of the transgressor's real earnings and market interests gained through those transgressions. Because more and more of these huge corporations and conglomerates have basically chosen to disregard regulations and just bake fines into the cost of doing business the way they feel like doing it.
@Somewhatskeptical You are babbling nonsense.
can we get a video on an eu candidate progress update for all candidates
The EU is the smartest things that the humans created for a long period of time.
It is one of the biggest political achievements of humanity.
“The smartest things that humans created” is a bit of a stretch but yea it’s a good thing.
Did anybody else get the Nebula ad? Including the bit about secession
Thanks
Part 4: Rename "TLDR News" to "TLDR News UK". That's allredy what you call the channel, so why not make that it's actual name?
It's comforting to know that all the Brexit in the world can't turn the UK into a deregulated hellscape ❤️
Thank you.
The EU's economic power definitely is on par with China and the US. the only difference is that the EU focuses on stability over just constant economic growth, the benefits of which becomes readily apparent whenever a crisis occurs.
from what i know, the the E.U. is the world biggest market.
Then you see how stupid this whole Brexit thing was... just delirious!
Regulation might be the best thing that EU ever did. A world where companies do whatever they want (like in the US) would not be great for the consumer.
Correction on the google fine amounts, they seem to use outdated (or just wrong) conversion rates.
The first one is €2.42 B, which is $2.56 B.
This one was just wrong, as euro was not worth less than USD. (video says 2.3)
The second is €4.34 B, which is $4.58 B.
The third is €1.49 B, which is $1.57 B.
Way more important that animal testing on environmental protection has be RoHS (Reducition of Hazardoues Substances) Directive. The purchase of new none RoHS compliant consumer electronics is now basically impossible anywhere in the world because nobody makes them.
"these days the EU is often portrayed as a declining power"
Eh what? Is this like a specifically british thing because over in EU countries I havnt seen this at all, quite the opposite.
yes, we might not be happy that the british left, but at least it remove a uncooperative self centered nation from the EU.
You should shade Northern Ireland on your map because it's half in and half out, but mostly in.
I like to think this video was inspired by my comment on an earlier video trying to explain a guy how the EU is powerful, even though it most likely wasn't my comment ^^
Great video, taking notes for if i have that discussion again in the future :D
EU is really a world leader, I wish we would just start taking economy and defense as seriously as regulation.
economy? what is there to complain about?
I wish we would also protect our external borders from foreign cultures but we can't even seem to do that right.
@@strife2746 Protect? We are inviting them in and bullying countries into taking inferior peoples and cultures into our embrace without a complaint. It's madness.
@@strife2746 Dude seriously - UE already is a conglomerate of several countries spanning entire continent. And all inhabitants of Schengen Area has a right of free travel everywhere else in UE. Yet here you are, worried about multi-culturalism? Bit late for that. Besides, look at Great Britain - they didn't want foreigners on their soil too, hence Brexit. And where did it got them? Brits literally are inviting foreign workers back now.
@@FrikInCasualMode Apparantly you don't understand the difference between European culture and MENA culture. You can't really call it multi-culturalism when it's just European cultures being exchanged amongst member states seeing how the cultures are a lot more similar than what you have on the other side of the Mediterranean. What's on the other side doesn't mix with what we have in Europe and most people don't want them here anymore. What don't you get about protecting the EXTERNAL borders?
The UK is oursourcing asylum seekers to Rwanda, speeding up deportations and want a merit-based system like Canada to only bring in the best of the best. That's what they always wanted to do so there isn't much of a surprise there. Hungary and Poland are in the EU as well and they don't want MENA cultures in their country either and they're not leaving the club either.
Schengen is actually being re-negotiated and reformed because countries acknowledge the current system just doesn't work anymore and want to remove the free movement of persons and reinstall borders checks again. Wide open borders with no regulations are becoming less and less acceptable by especially Germany and France.
Don't be an idiot and actually learn your stuff.
One problem, once Bayer acquired Monsanto the use of herbicide glyphosate is still allowed in the EU. While I agree that the EU regulations on food safety are better than most places, this is a huge issue. To be glyphosate causes cancer and has a knickname in the industry as the breast tumor causing hormone.
It’s a good thing. There is no evidence of it causing cancer.
Stop reading woho blogs.
Science based medicine is a better blog.
The EU is slow to act cuz of the long consulatation periods. In a way it's good cuz they avoid the companies sueing the EU for damages if the due diligence isn't done right, on the othe hand, it takes them years to get important stuff done.
The glyphosate is not a problem. It's a myth and scientits have proved its not that dangerous. Hundreds of reasons exist to dislike Monsanto or Bayer. The glyphosate is not one of those
Thanks TLDR, I love your news. You make me actually understand the EU, and I've lived in it for most of my life...
Is it just me that always have to turn my volume up when watching TLDR video
Yey! Britain is now a rule taker. 🇬🇧
They won't even have a say in it anymore lmao
Why am i smiling?
idc that what anyone says, I prefer being in the EU with a system that regulates everything. For instance, without EU regulations, anyone buying iPhones would still use lightning
It's amazing how much leverage you get by being large and having money.
IMO the EU has generally had a positive influence regarding regulation and they almost always have the best intentions in mind when drafting new ones. But sometimes the implementation can be pretty bad. The GDPR mentioned repeatedly in this video is a good example. The wording of the law is so broad and ambiguous that to fully comply is almost impossible. In practice they haven't gone after companies that at least put some effort into compliance, but if they ever decide to go after any specific company they could throw the book at them and there is nothing that could be done about it.
I think the light bub regulations of 2009 is one of these regulations that had a huge global impact. After normal lightbulbs were forbidden in the EU the quality and the price of energy saving bulbs improved a lot and that helped the complete world. Especially LED lamps have improved so much since then.
It's interesting to see how all 4 superpowers have a completely different way of influencing the entire world.
The US has NATO/other military alliances and it's military might as well as the importance of the US-Dollar.
China has its giant market and ambitious investment projects.
Russia has its geopolitical strategy of funding authoritarian regimes and exporting fossile fuels.
And the EU has the Brussels effect and its hapit of giving economic aid.
Those 4 super power have been using their different means to gain influence over the course of the last decade. Yet now after Russia's (tbh) stupid decision to invade Ukraine, this could change in the future. I just do not know how exactly yet.
Calling Russia a superpower is quite a stretch lol. Its economy is smaller than that of Italy and militarily it’s struggling against Ukraine…
@@lenn939 I mean it is involved world wide in most conflicts. Especially in Africa and the Middle East. Also as you can see the current war has completely disbalanced Geopolitics which already shows that Russia (used to be)/is a super power. The question is if they can remain their world wide influence under current circumstances.
Have they been a super power in 2010s? Yes.
Will they be by the end of 2025? Uncertain.
@@DeutschlandMapping North Korea also has the capability to completely imbalance geopolitics if it wanted to. That doesn’t make a country a superpower, just a nuclear power.
@@lenn939 But NK cannot get involved in almost all conflicts. They cannot set up a sphere od influence in Africa for example. That's why NK is not a superpower.
One thing about the EU market that is rarely talked about is that with member countries being overall more redistributive of resources among the population it makes that market more interesting than any other for a lot of companies. Just looking at raw numbers rarely tells the whole story.
I think the big difference and why EU regulation gets done is that it is not a single nation which has conflicted interests with the companies. Often the US will not restrict a US business even though it may be impacting the citizens. The EU may have a single country that may feel that way, but the EU as a whole doesn't have those issues. So, a company can't just say they will pack up shop and move as easily.
The EU's enormous market and how much of the economy that each member state is involved in world trade gives it soft power that it leverages through it's University elites in the form of regulations and regulators (government officials). The EU is not a military alliance (NATO is the military alliance for Europe) but a political and economic one and soft power (economic forces are extremely powerful in affecting people) is the only kind of power that Europe wants to use. It's not that they are incapable of exercising hard power, it's that they are unwilling to. Good thing Ukraine is fighting so well. Russia is Man and men at the basest, most animalistic, brutish nature of ourselves.
If it weren't for the American taxpayer & the American military, you'd all be speaking Russian.
@@paulschmitz9175if it weren’t for european colonizers in America they would still be Doing Human sacrifices🤣🤣🤣
@@paulschmitz9175also “white people” is a Made up Term by Americans and it really only means of European descent
@@paulschmitz9175lol Europe has donated and pledged 157 billions to Ukriane while the USA has donated and pledged only 72 billion to Ukraine…EU has given more than double you Americans need to pay the double you’ve been giving…time to step up and raise it actually we Europeans have been carrying the support.
@@ricardomadleno564 You've been freeloading off the American taxpayer & military since 1946.
The term ‘rule’ is as misplaced as usual. Ruling is unilateral. The EU can’t do anything unilaterally among its own members, and even less so among other states. The EU has good influence. For all its flaws, and need of reforms, life in Europe is much better under EU rules than it was in 1980s. This is often overlooked.
" life in Europe is much better under EU rules than it was in 1980s" especially if you live east of Berlin...
Have you been to Europe lately, K F?
@@veejayroth yes, (Russian troll?)
Just a heads up, when Nebula buys the ad, we still have to see an add.....from Nebula.
Like seriously bruh.
I heard that when you access websites from outside the EU you dont get the popup for disabling optional cookies. Is that true?
Europe is creating the BEST Culture for 1000s of years.