The company was trying to rent-seek by profiting off access to markets and infrastructure supported by the public without paying their fair share of it, and achieve unfair competitive advantage against equivalent companies by violating EU regulations.

>The EU suffers economically when it falls behind technologically.

Is moving faster better? Certainly to generate wealth for a subset of the population but rarely for the general public.

This view that the US is doing better because a small group of rich people are increasing their share of the wealth while most of the country is at best treading water or worse seeing their economic power decrease, where the average person in the EU is actually better off is myopic at best and malicious at worse.