> there are 50 very different countries on this continent with completely different languages and cultures. There is no way we can support massive tech companie

> there are 50 very different countries on this continent with completely different languages and cultures. There is no way we can support massive tech companies such as Google, even if they would arise here as startups. These 50 countries are so different (sarcasm) culturally and linguistically that in every single one of them almost everybody uses the same Google ;-) I wouldn't mind using a Dutch search engine or a Portuguese social network if they were nearly as good. I don't understand how is it harder to engineer a better search engine (or anything) in the EU than in the US.