[tonyedgecombe]

>Let banks operate and merge across borders, especially neobanks/fintechs.

I'm not sure more centralisation of banking is a good idea. Too big to fail and all that. The UK has never really recovered from the banking crisis thanks to its oversized financial activities.

[cm277]

Oh, you mean the declining economy with (checks notes) the largest startup ecosystem in Europe? :-)

[tonyedgecombe]

The economy where per capita gdp has hardly moved in the last 15 years.

[direwolf20]

Do we want more GDP? Look where that plan took America. Europe seems to feel it has enough GDP and can pursue additional goals.

[tonyedgecombe]

If you want to abandon GDP growth then you will need to completely rework our economic and political system. I'm not sure we have come up with a suitable alternative so far.