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What the writer is missing is that the local bureaucracy is the EU bureaucracy with extra steps. Unlike Congress, the European parliament does not enforce it's

What the writer is missing is that the local bureaucracy is the EU bureaucracy with extra steps. Unlike Congress, the European parliament does not enforce it's legislation trough EU agencies, it dumps it to the local agencies working in that particular sphere and lets them figure it out. Fairly often the particular activities imposed on local agencies get funded trough an Operational Programme. Rather than the EU parliament just allocating the funds for the activities it wants carried out, this involves the local agency writing a grant application for the funds, which is quite a silly bureaucratic exercise. If it enforces EU law, while being funded by the EU, it's not really member state bureaucracy, is it? Moreover EU legislation usually imposes a particular process to local administration, so member governments can't streamline or improve EU-related administrative process unless the Commission decides to look the other way. (Which is not common, but not exactly unheard of either.)

jimnotgym 3y ago
On the other hand, if you do international trade outside of the EU you get the effect of lots of different bureaucratic systems that mean you have a lot to learn. It is much easier inside the EU.
orwin 3y ago
The state choose how to implement the law, if it want to implement it at all. If EU is mad at the local implementation, it stop subventions, then sue. I think the last case was Ireland for giving tax breaks to companies, and it was weird. The previous one was France that had to pay millions because water quality in Brittany's rivers was a lot lower than it should have been. I think there's also a case wis asylums laws in Hungary, but tbh, it's very rare that it comes to litigation. And most of the time, it's citizens of the country being litigated that called the EJC/CJE in the first place (Ireland and Hungary being two exceptions).

jimnotgym 3y ago

On the other hand, if you do international trade outside of the EU you get the effect of lots of different bureaucratic systems that mean you have a lot to learn. It is much easier inside the EU.

orwin 3y ago

The state choose how to implement the law, if it want to implement it at all. If EU is mad at the local implementation, it stop subventions, then sue. I think the last case was Ireland for giving tax breaks to companies, and it was weird. The previous one was France that had to pay millions because water quality in Brittany's rivers was a lot lower than it should have been. I think there's also a case wis asylums laws in Hungary, but tbh, it's very rare that it comes to litigation. And most of the time, it's citizens of the country being litigated that called the EJC/CJE in the first place (Ireland and Hungary being two exceptions).