3 ms·
I'd love nothing more than for US tech companies to stop making their "EU headquarters" in UK, and move to Germany or even Ireland or some other EU country. It'
by mtgx 10y ago
I'd love nothing more than for US tech companies to stop making their "EU headquarters" in UK, and move to Germany or even Ireland or some other EU country. It's annoying that UK is automatically considered because of its use of English language. It doesn't seem that it's gaining these new headquarters in a "fair way" or based on merit, which seems to be Silicon Valley's big thing.
If UK was out of the EU, I think most US companies wouldn't automatically consider a soon-to-be totalitarian country that's on its way to become the western version of China, through mass surveillance and censorship, for their European headquarters. I could only see that as a good thing (sorry Brits, but fix your shit first).
And if so many UK politicians and UK citizens don't want to be in the EU anymore and if they keep trying try to change the EU to work "their way", maybe UK deserves a "time-out" from the EU.
- germanier 10y agoAren't most Euroepan headquarters of US companies in Ireland anyway? It has certainly the more preferable tax situation and most big US tech companies I can think of are legally operated from Ireland for EU users.