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by RandomLensman 846 days ago
Why would competition law and/or national security laws not apply to a start-up or its acquirers? Why would they or their acquirers get exceptions? Would those exceptions cover patents as well on the national security? What else and why?

Also, this isn't the EU saying "no" at the moment, but looking into it, as it does with many things.
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throwaway55671 846 days ago
They shouldn't get exceptions. There shouldn't be so many laws and regulations that result in EU being so behind economy-, success- and investment-wise.
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RandomLensman 846 days ago
Not sure why you think it is the number of laws and regulations that lead to that. The US has huge amounts of those, too.

Some structural differences are in part actually from the US having been less permissive than Europe in banking.

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