And yet US companies keep biting the bullet and abiding by regulations (or bleeding money to pay the massive fines for violating them) to keep doing business in the EU. So what if those companies can get away with abusing their non-EU users and use those to generate most of their profits. Are you more concerned about providing services and improving quality of life in the EU or with a handful of rich kids in the EU being able to rake in the same kind of cash as their American counterparts?

It's funny you think deregulating housing would solve the housing crisis. If you think rent limits are a disincentive to build more affordable housing, how about we just subsidize loans for non-commercial home ownership instead of expecting investors who want a ROI to either make their luxury apartments more affordable for no good reason or adhere to health and safety standards in their barely profitable social housing projects? After all, if tenants can cough up the money to regularly pay ever-increasing rents they can surely pay back loans with similar rates.