A recurring form of culture shock to me is that Europe’s economy is stagnating relative to US & China and its leaders’ primary efforts in tech initiatives isn’t to spur local innovation but to increasingly penalize successful US & Chinese companies.
Don’t they care about GDP?
The US is aggressively trying to increase its local tech capabilities with initiatives like the CHIPS Act while the EU is just restriction after restriction from GDPR to DSA to DMA. All well intentioned but no growth plan
