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by eeturunen 1166 days ago
Yours is exactly the kind of scenario I find very interesting and will evaluate in my research. While it's important to protect individual right to privacy, it's also very important for the EU to make entrepreneurship as approachable as possible to truly boost economic growth.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

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> While it's important to protect individual right to privacy, it's also very important for the EU to make entrepreneurship as approachable as possible to truly boost economic growth.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but the EU doesn't care about entrepreneurship and small businesses. Anything EU politicians and representatives like to say to the contrary is mere lip service. By and large, the EU is an environment that's hostile towards entrepreneurship.

Not sure if there is some overarching hostility I just haven't seen, but there are so many startups, especially tech startups, where I live in the EU. I hear of someone I know starting their own studio or other business very regularly, and there is very much a general "vibe" of entrepreneurship in the cities I've lived in. Luckily this hostile environment doesn't seem to be much of a deterrent around here at least.