The third part in a series by FT on [the struggles faced by the European single market](https://www.ft.com/singlemarket), this time going into the struggles of professionals and the regulatory burdens they face moving from country to country within the EU. The article does a really good job of summarising the frictions facing the movement of services so there’s not much I can add but as it says, there’s a real first mover struggle at play here. Every country in the EU agrees on principle that they should cut regulations to allow professionals to move more freely but nobody wants to be the first to do it because of internal politics. Hopefully the combination of external pressure from the US and China and pro Europe voices domestically can change this calculus. Finally, from the end of the article
> “No matter if you have a master certificate or not, the best baker stays in business,” he said. “If your bread is not good, you will not be successful in the long run.”
Preach my brother. Truest thing I’ve heard all day ✊
!ping EUROPE
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>The French nationalist politician Philippe de Villiers became the poster child for the opposition to the Services Directive when he warned about the threat of the “Polish plumber”, who became a symbolic figure representing eastern European workers allegedly undercutting local labour markets and regulations.
The old rule of “Americans do casual racism, Europeans go professional”.
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The third part in a series by FT on [the struggles faced by the European single market](https://www.ft.com/singlemarket), this time going into the struggles of professionals and the regulatory burdens they face moving from country to country within the EU. The article does a really good job of summarising the frictions facing the movement of services so there’s not much I can add but as it says, there’s a real first mover struggle at play here. Every country in the EU agrees on principle that they should cut regulations to allow professionals to move more freely but nobody wants to be the first to do it because of internal politics. Hopefully the combination of external pressure from the US and China and pro Europe voices domestically can change this calculus. Finally, from the end of the article
> “No matter if you have a master certificate or not, the best baker stays in business,” he said. “If your bread is not good, you will not be successful in the long run.”
Preach my brother. Truest thing I’ve heard all day ✊
!ping EUROPE
>The French nationalist politician Philippe de Villiers became the poster child for the opposition to the Services Directive when he warned about the threat of the “Polish plumber”, who became a symbolic figure representing eastern European workers allegedly undercutting local labour markets and regulations.
The old rule of “Americans do casual racism, Europeans go professional”.