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Why would it be ridiculous, if a truck has a Bulgarian license plate it's a reasonable expectation that it's based in Bulgaria.

• fermisea 3y ago
  If a worker has Bulgarian nationality, they are free to live and work anywhere in the EU, including France. And a Bulgarian business can also operate anywhere in the EU. It's a single economic market, so it's clear that rules like that are arbitrary and designed to be appease special interests.
  • madsbuch 3y ago
    This is about the vehicle. The Bulgarian company is welcome to acquire a French registered vehicle and let it drive in France for years - it might come with extra requirements around having a French subsidy. As stated elsewhere: This is politics and does not really change the fundamentals. Change take time. When countries in the EU gets more assimilated, more and more of these restrictions will be lifted. You ought to see the trajectory and direction more than the absolute position of the legislation.
  • interactivecode 3y ago
    yes and no. They are free to live and work anywhere in the EU, but through multiple rules they are obligated to pay income, city and employment taxes in the country they live and work. I've heard that there are long term goals of unifying healthcare, retirement and the way work and local taxes are calculated so that it's more flexible and less based on small local bureaucracy. Similar to what they did with mobile phone subscriptions, where you pay to the country you spend your time in, but can use it anywhere. but that requires a lot more financial systems to interoperate.
• xdennis 3y ago
  In a "free" market why would a Bulgarian be forced to operate only near Bulgaria? As an example, all food in Romania is from the Netherlands or other foreign countries. But you don't see the EU imposing regulations to make foreign food more expensive. Essentially eastern Europe is an exploitation market: everything is manufactured in the west, and when the east has an advantage it's immediately shut down. This is also very polluting: forcing eastern European drivers to migrate to their home countries frequently, transporting food from western Europe to eastern Europe.
  • bojan 3y ago
    > In a "free" market why would a Bulgarian be forced to operate only near Bulgaria? But this isn't about a Bulgarian person - this is about a truck registered in Bulgaria. That means that the registration fees and taxes, which are a national responsibility and are not at the EU-level, are paid in Bulgaria. So if you only drive the truck in, say, France, you're essentially evading French taxes for the said truck.
  • codingcodingboy 3y ago
    > As an example, all food in Romania is from the Netherlands or other foreign countries. Why?
    • piva00 3y ago
      Probably because Romanian farmers make more money selling their produce outside of Romania and the Netherlands and other countries can produce so much cheap produce that it's cheaper for Romania to import it rather than pay the price Romanian farmers are willing to sell it in the internal market. I don't see any issue with that, it's a win-win.