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This is actually a particularly important point. The nature of the EU is laden with bureaucracy. Combined with the wide range of cultures, and the rotation of staff, it makes bribing enough people to get your way difficult. You end up needing people in multiple countries to deal with it, and the rotations make long term deals difficult.

The end result is that bribing EU bureaucracy is like trying to stop a river with just hands. It’s far less effective, letting the EU be a lot more effective (if slow).

There’s a reason so many big business interests want to break up the EU.

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Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Shouldn’t it be the same in the US with state and federal governments?

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- rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  All of the states are owned by one of the same two political parties, and their respective goals are more or less aligned on a state-by-state level, bordering on zealotry.
  
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- cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  America is, effectively a monoculture. At least in the UK, there is more variance in accents over 100 miles than over all of the US. The EU has a wide selection of languages and cultures, all with deep histories and quirks. Methods that work in 1 culture will be insulting in another. America is practically setup for mass deployment of propaganda and industrial ~~bribery~~ , sorry lobbying.
  
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- thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The US was originally more like the EU but it federalized pretty hard after the civil war.
  
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