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by glimshe 31 days ago
The EU can certainly do a lot, with the exception of producing their own major tech companies.
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The end goal shouldn't be "monopolies, but European", the end goal should be no monopolies.
It's funny how people complain that the EU has no Google, when Google should never have been allowed to exist in the first place. The current tech dystopia is a direct result of the US failing to enforce its antitrust laws.

Major tech companies are a bug, not a feature.

Is ASML "European" or a "monopoly" under your definition as one can't be both?
Why can't it be both? After all GP did not give any definitions. He simply and clearly stated:

> The end goal shouldn't be "monopolies, but European", the end goal should be no monopolies.

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