Forgot the most critical: Rotten Nick

Essentially, united on foreign policy but not domestic (barring stuff like human rights)? Superficially it seems sensible enough.

Who do you think influences the masses to vote this way, and who put people like trump in the position to be elected?

Doesn't sound like it failed at its purpose in that case

Fair enough, thanks for the response

I've been arguing this for a few years. Create a solid, open source ecosystem for all the things we use for-profit providers for currently. It'd be a massive gain for European governments, and governments/businesses globally to have open enterprise solutions that are maintained with significant budgets (less than what we're all paying the US now)

I'm curious, since you're already on Protonmail, why not use their VPN too?

I feel like this is unfortunately pretty likely to be misunderstood, like the original comment did

in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country

Honestly, EU Inc, announced at the WEF, is one of the few good things to come out of that mess. A single framework for running a business in all EU countries, meaning expansion across borders will be simplified enormously. Should allow for easier growth in the future.

There are certain sayings, phrases or slang that I may not be intimately familiar with.

This says nothing about your fluency. There are tonnes of English slang that Americans are unfamiliar with, and vice versa.
Hell, there's a lot of Singaporean English that doesn't exist in the minds of Brits and Americans, but Singaporeans are still fluent in English, it's just different from what people consider "true" English.

Stop apologising, start acting

No mainstream alternative to Android/iOS exists. Same goes for Visa/Mastercard. All of them are US products.

Essentially shutting down all smartphones and most consumer payments would be pretty crippling.

I hope this whole thing is enough of a wake-up call for the EU to put (more) effort into a lasting solution.