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Re:EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from... by Bayart on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:17AM (#43783114)
> You might argue that the EU is a sprawling, wasteful bureaucracy and you would not be wrong, per se, but they made a lot of useful laws that just simply make the world a better place.

The EU bureaucracy itself is significantly lighter and more purposeful than any of the underlying individual states' bureaucracy, though that might simply be a function of youth and restricted scope.

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Re:EU Energy labelling will apply to phones and tablets from... by pjc50 on Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:07AM (#43783735)
> The EU bureaucracy itself is significantly lighter and more purposeful than any of the underlying individual states' bureaucracy

The EU ""states rights"" (subsidiarity) is a lot stronger and more real than the corresponding structures in the US. It also doesn't really do direct enforcement - there's no EU federal police checking tablets, it's all done through national level enforcement.

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