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Re:Google should be broken up, say European MPs by arethuza on Thursday November 27, 2014 @08:26AM (#8667128)
I'm not sure I'd actually call the EU a "huge bureaucracy" - it has 33 thousand staff:

http://ec.europa.eu/civil_service/docs/hr_key_figures_en.pdf

That's about twice as much as the Scottish Government - which is for a much smaller population.

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Re:Google should be broken up, say European MPs by pjc50 on Thursday November 27, 2014 @08:42AM (#8667214)
The bureaucracy is indirect; all the regulatory requirements are implemented nationally and handled by national staff. Or impose requirements on businesses that don't correspond to enforcement staff at all, like CE marking.
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