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Re:E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big ... by DCKing on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:31AM (#20938826)
This sounds like bad faith argument, surely the EU investing billions in infrastructure or adopting consumer protection is not just marketing? That's a lot of effort to go through just to get the EU flag in people's faces.

Even if this is a bad faith argument - and it's fine if it is - that only serves to illustrate the EU's 'marketing' is not effective.

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Re:E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big ... by mikl on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:52AM (#20938960)
No, some of the infrastructure is of course useful in itself (although a good chunk is wasted, like this lovely report explains: https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR14_21/QJAB140... ), but the prominent signs and flags proclaiming that said infrastructure was funded by the EU is certainly marketing.
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Re:E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big ... by AstralStorm on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:30PM (#20941963)
You have no idea, in EU projects, even big ones, sometimes 66% or even more was from EU restructuring or agricultural funds, at least in Poland. A few extra from innovation and science funds, but those are peanuts.
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