> Brussels doesn't really care about startups and sees them as a curiosity. I think Brussels can be blame for a lot of things but not about NOT wanting to harm

> Brussels doesn't really care about startups and sees them as a curiosity. I think Brussels can be blame for a lot of things but not about NOT wanting to harmonize laws. But the main problem here is that countries dont really want a federation. So Brussels cannot do too much to help startups with taxes. I suspect the problem you so accurately describe with VAT is not that Brussels did not wanted a simple solution but countries insisting to own their own piece of that share according with their own VAT level. Focus here on the words “their own”. Europe IMO as European citizen is very diverse so they all want somehow to keep everything they have in their own country the same while also making it together. That is hard task. Was hard when globalization spirit was high and it is almost impossible now when we go more into individualism.