> with a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over our Union

For one, I'm worried about what simple means. Likely something that will not make it as cheap to operate in every EU country, but make it as expensive to do that.

Also, whatever the EU commission/council/whatever they call themselves in order to not call themselves government decides has to be translated into local legislation by all member countries. So it will get twisted in 27 different ways, some of them incompatible. Also 9 of the 27 will take years to finish the process.

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a_ba 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe the implementation will be challenging in one aspect or another but are there any reasons why you would you rather keep the current patchwork?

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rsynnott 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> For one, I'm worried about what simple means. Likely something that will not make it as cheap to operate in every EU country, but make it as expensive to do that.

I mean, if that's the case, no-one will use that structure.

In general, having a single set of rules makes things cheaper. That is the whole basis of standardisation.

> Also 9 of the 27 will take years to finish the process.

You're thinking of directives. I'd assume this will be a regulation (quick guide to the differences here: https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/law... )

	▲	nottorp 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> quick guide to the differences here They're trying so hard to not call themselves a government that they renamed everything so it doesn't sound like what a government does. Maybe they should start with fixing that... For the record i am in the EU and I think the EU is generally a good thing. Doesn't mean the "commisioners/ministers/whatever" couldn't use a few kicks to bring them more down to earth.