Basically, yes. The EU needs a lot more power to force through an actual single market. Especially a single digital market. That's why the US is crushing EU tech companies. Licensing (especially content), patents, totally different tax systems, addressing all of the EU as a small company is basically impossible.

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izacus an hour ago | parent [-]

Except that US also has pretty fragmented state law, doesn't it?

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weberer an hour ago | parent [-]

Not anything like this. The closest thing is charging local sales tax.

	▲	izacus 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Environmental laws ("The California Effect"), payroll laws, payment laws, rules about what to sell and where are also different, aren't they?