[al_borland]

My company has been trying to tell my team to be “global” and support the EU for a good 10 years. Every time we even look it’s such a mess that we kick the can down the road and let the people who actually live there deal with it. Their footprint it vastly smaller than what we have in the US, yet seemingly much harder to manage due to all the regulations.

[MilaM]

With all the red tape the EU has created, I think it's still better than dealing with 27 completely separate jurisdictions.

[al_borland]

That was the issue, it still felt separate (I'm not sure if this was due to regulations or legacy systems). I was given logins to access their systems, and there were over a dozen, and no one ever did explain what they were all for. When I asked, the best I got was that it depended on the country, but even that wasn't too clear. I never did bother to figure it out. Eventually I transferred out of the team that had to care about that and had them delete my accounts. It's cropping back up in my new team, but so far the team in the EU is handling everything for their region. If they try to have us take if over, I think we'll need to run everything we do past legal, because none of us in the US have any idea what all the laws and rules are, not being around it.