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> There'd be a lot less anti-EU sentiment if there was a bright line against meddling with what should be internal affairs of sovereign states GDPR, DMA and DS
by sofixa 4y ago
> There'd be a lot less anti-EU sentiment if there was a bright line against meddling with what should be internal affairs of sovereign states
GDPR, DMA and DSA, the Covid recovery funds, Schengen, Erasmsus. Just those massive things off the top of my head compensate the EU's normalisation across Europe in certain markets, which has had it's successes (in the making) like separating rail operations from infrastructure thus allowing competition, and non successes like the common European energy market which has plenty of good ideas on paper, but when faced with a massive energy crisis due to extreme external factors is terrible.
- actionfromafar 4y ago"separating rail operations from infrastructure" That has been a complete shitshow in Sweden and the UK, which are the examples I know of. Nothing is coordinated and actors blame each other.
- sofixa 4y agoI don't know about Sweden, but the way it was done in the UK is the poster child of how not to do it. It's the worst possible way, with privatize mini-monopolies for every portion. What i mean is something like in the rest of the EU, where you have the rail infrastructure provider, and then anyone can come in and apply for a license to operate trains as long as they fill the requirements, pay for the access and there's physical space. So now in France we have competition on some routes, and it's amazing. Frecciarosa trains blow SNCF TGVs out of the water, and the mere threat of the coming competition forced SNCF to add many more options with low cost high and low speed trains.
- actionfromafar 4y agoI think Sweden actually did it more like France, but somehow managed to defer maintenance enough for schedules to break down.
- ztrww 4y agoso we can’t criticize the EU for anything because it did some other things right?