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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

In @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social @nilsredeker.bsky.social and my view a couple things have gone awry. First and foremost: the diagnosis. Europe, the current consensus goes, has smothered itself in unnecessary regulation, and growth will return once red tape is cut. 2/

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

But there has been no explosion of red tape compared to the US - the Commission itself puts the gains from regulatory simplification at just €12 billion a year, or around 0.07 per cent of EU GDP. Cutting back EU climate-related reporting requirements will not fix the deeper problem.... 3/

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

....that Europe’s old growth model, built on external demand, simply no longer works in a world where the US is walling off its market behind tariffs and China is running a $1.2 trillion trade surplus increasingly concentrated in Europe’s core engineering sectors. 4/

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