Or in other words: A US company thinks the local requirements are not relevant to them, squeeze an amount of the GDP out of the countries and then complain that

Or in other words: A US company thinks the local requirements are not relevant to them, squeeze an amount of the GDP out of the countries and then complain that the locals complain? No fee applied could ever get the money back lost before. When you want to look into how anti-globalization works, then look at Washington or Peking. Europe, due to its multi-tier law structure, is an amateur compared to these. The only reason why you are bothered by it, is that the European market is too big to be ignored and there are impacts like the GDPR etc.