Regulation has nothing to do with progress. You're comparing a single country of over 330 million people mostly coming from a common culture, speaking one langu

Regulation has nothing to do with progress. You're comparing a single country of over 330 million people mostly coming from a common culture, speaking one language, so big and isolated that it was never invaded from the outside, to an entity only 30 years old consisting of 27 different countries with completely different cultures and languages (currently 24) whose inhabitants saw some of their countries at war multiple times. What the EU has accomplished is a miracle to me.