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They take A decade, not decades. You're the one spreading FUD. There are successful new nuclear projects built very quickly in EU.

The only slow thing about nuclear is regulatory approval - hampered by EU that for many years didn't accept nuclear as "green".

Is nuclear more expensive that rebuilding the electrical grid and building enough storage to handle the wind/solar peaks and use the energy later? I don't think it's so clear. The solar/wind power plant itself is not the full cost.

Well, that's sad. What do they get from the state that people in Czech Republic don't?

I don't want "a" directly elected commissioner.

I want a directly elected Commission. The same system would suffice - chosen by the elected parliament among its members.

The political solution is way too fragile.

No, they are members of the parliament.

In Czech Republic as self-employed ("živnostník") your effective tax+insurance rate for income up to 2M CZK (~ 80k EUR) is never more than 15%. I have SW contractor friends paying around 8-12% - including health and social insurance. No need to have any accountant at all for income under 2M CZK, you just keep your invoices and sum your income at the end of a year, the tax return form is online and the sum of income is your only input.

There are not so many options you couldn't just check yourself... But to answer your question - Poland and Czech Republic.

Just over the border is a country with effective income tax for self-employed businessmen around 5-15%.

There are states with much lower taxes that also pay for education. Why should Germans pay so much?

There are people who didn't go to university doing business too.

You don't need to go full nomad, just spend half a year + 1 day out of Germany.

Yes, most EU countries directly elect the parliament and the government is formed from the parliament members - usually the winning party/coalition, but not always. In some it's a tradition that the winning party leader gets the first shot at getting their cabinet approved by the parliament, then a second shot, and if they can't do it the president appoints somebody else.

My country is one of the ones pushing for this to not be implemented, so I am very unhappy to have the EU force it.

Who cares? I don't live in UK or USA. They can have whatever disfunctional system they want, doesn't mean I will tolerate it at my home because of that.

There are dictators elsewhere, should I have one at home too?

East of EU.

That is definitely how the world works. Import/export laws largely do not apply when it's the customer self-importing it for their own personal use. And that can include the seller sending it to them using FedEx or whatever, still self-import.

Import/export laws mostly affect stuff that's going to be resold again, and involve local subsidiaries or contracted distributors.

The two cases I listed do not happen at the same time. Try some other, more charitable interpretation.

If I went out and bought something out of my country, the seller never tried to sell in my country and it makes no sense they would have to follow my local law.

If the seller went out and started selling (doing marketing etc) in my country, that's a different story.

No, they don't need to follow the local law. I can buy whatever I want from anywhere in the world and the company doesn't need to follow anything other than the law of their home.

These are very significantly different cases:

1) a foreign customer buying

2) a foreign company selling

In the first case, the company follows their home law only. On the second case they would have to follow the local law of the customer's country too

No. If I use services of a foreign company, I am the one who should follow the foreign law. I am the one who went out and used a foreign service, they didn't come to me.

Many self-hosted business apps require PHP and MySQL.

Anecdote: Both my parents and all grandparents have Telegram while none of them have Instagram.

It's a chat app used by a much wider audience than Instagram. Instagram is predominantly used by younger people who want to live the digital social life.