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Re:AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region by mkohlmyr on Thursday October 23, 2014 @12:58PM (#8499228)
Speaking as someone who grew up in Sweden I have a hard time believing the EU government is "less corrupt" than ours. Removing the ability to legislate (on anything) effectively forces every country to a lowest common denominator (that can be voted through) of legislation.

Then again I tend to be biased against centralisation of power so maybe don't listen to me when it comes to the EU.

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Re:AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region by freshflowers on Thursday October 23, 2014 @01:26PM (#8499443)
Not a big fan of the EU or centralisation either, but when it comes to matters of privacy and standing up to US interests, I'll take the EU over Sweden's recent track record.
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Re:AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region by morsch on Friday October 24, 2014 @08:45AM (#8503355)
When it's just about minimum standards, nothing's stopping your legislative to vote for stricter policies -- right? Although I'm often worried that national legislators will point to implementations of the EU minimum standard as being enough and/or more stricter laws being a competitive hindrance.
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