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Re:Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sov... by jschoe on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:21PM (#45774429)
Europe does not have the same market conditions as the US. The continent is divided into a gazillion amount of small countries, each with their own rules, laws, regulations, languages, customers, pension systems, healthcare systems, and taxes. Even the currency is not the same everywhere. Not to mention the cultural differences.

Pretty hard economy to survive in.

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Re:Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sov... by ArtTimeInvestor on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:29PM (#45774504)
US companies seem to sell into Europe just fine?

Amazon, Google, Microsoft - they all make tens of billions of revenue in Europe.

Why wouldn't a company based in Europe be able to do the same?

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Re:Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sov... by somanyphotons on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:53PM (#45774769)
US companies get big first, only then try Europe once they have big revenue/headcount to handle the risk/complexity.
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Re:Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sov... by kergonath on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:45PM (#45775934)
One thing they have for them is a lot of money to invest from their American market, and enough momentum that they can afford barely sustainable European operations for a few years whilst they figure things out and streamline everything.
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Re:Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sov... by consumer451 on Friday October 31, 2025 @02:45PM (#45775304)
EU federalism would solve this issue, and likely cause others.

The concept of European federalism is extremely interesting to me. The first I heard about it was at a house party in Prague, from a group of very excited young people. It feels both impossible and inevitable.

Here is a subreddit on the topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/EuropeanFederalists/

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Re:Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sov... by eikenberry on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:19PM (#45775673)
The US started this way... Europe must be careful about how much power is given the EU or it will end up the same way.
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Re:Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sov... by bfkwlfkjf on Saturday November 01, 2025 @08:29AM (#45781136)
Uhhh US companies can do it.
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