yep. people don't really appreciate how important and groundbreaking this two-tier structure in Europe the corporate world can much easier capture the politica

yep. people don't really appreciate how important and groundbreaking this two-tier structure in Europe the corporate world can much easier capture the political class of its homebase country versus a large and inhomogeneous collection of countries this works as a two-sided knife: on the negative, not easy to scale businesses across Europe. that is a real problem. on the positive, poor regulation or governance doesn't travel far. the challenge will be to keep the benefits while smoothing the negatves. I suspect its possible