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You could lobby the EU for a productivity report. I'm an Aussie, not an EU citizen, but we have a group called the "Productivity Commission". They basically wri

by wisty 15y ago

You could lobby the EU for a productivity report. I'm an Aussie, not an EU citizen, but we have a group called the "Productivity Commission". They basically write reports on how the government can improve business conditions, by reducing red tape, reforming tax, and lowering barriers to entry. The important thing is to get the write part of the EU to act. If the wrong agency (or whatever the name is for EU appendages) gets involved, you'll have a bunch of soul-sapping incubators run by eurocrats, which will only sponsor 40-year-old guys with detailed business plans, and good PowerPoint decks. The right agency will give ammunition to the legislators who want to reduce paperwork, not jobs to people who want to write business plans. You can't lobby the EU with a specific plan, though. You tell them there's a problem, and they tell you the solution. They are politicians, or answerable to politicians, so they want to be seen to be do the right thing, not doing the right thing. You can try to frame it in a way that the right agency gets the ball, though.

danmaz74 15y ago
You can tell them what the problem is, but you can also tell what a good solution would look like, so that if they implement a bad solution you can tell so. Otherwise, they can say "ok we solved it" and it would be difficult to say it isn't true.
- wisty 15y ago
  OK, but you aren't dealing with a monolithic entity, and they don't care about you, but about all the people who care about the problem. Whoever you lobby (say, the politicians) need a solution. "Cut red tape, federate payment gateways" is not a solution they can implement. They can either legislate, or handball the problem to "the relevant authority". Assuming legislation is infeasible (which seems to be the case) you have to make sure it goes to the right authority. Productivity commisions will come up with a clear plan, which will feed back into further decisions. It's not an elegant solution, but you are talking about steering a ship with a lot of inertia.

by wisty 15y ago

danmaz74 15y ago

You can tell them what the problem is, but you can also tell what a good solution would look like, so that if they implement a bad solution you can tell so. Otherwise, they can say "ok we solved it" and it would be difficult to say it isn't true.

wisty 15y ago
OK, but you aren't dealing with a monolithic entity, and they don't care about you, but about all the people who care about the problem. Whoever you lobby (say, the politicians) need a solution. "Cut red tape, federate payment gateways" is not a solution they can implement. They can either legislate, or handball the problem to "the relevant authority". Assuming legislation is infeasible (which seems to be the case) you have to make sure it goes to the right authority. Productivity commisions will come up with a clear plan, which will feed back into further decisions. It's not an elegant solution, but you are talking about steering a ship with a lot of inertia.