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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by RNAi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Whenever talking about industrial/economic decline in Europe, this talking point is mentioned, along with others ofc.

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Context added

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

There’s two points.

EU has pretty strong labour regulation. If that is brought up as why EU industry is suffering then its right wing nonsense. The environmental regulations are pretty abismal so it’s not even logical from a right wing perspective
The EU industry is suffering bc its policy is tailing the US, ala nordstream. Building a sovereign economy would undermine the US and would probably require socialist planning. So they don’t do that.