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Nokia, Spotify, StarOffice, Telekom, Telefónica, Vodafone, Siemens, Bosch, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Skoda, Volvo, Opel, Alstom, ASML, Hetzner, etc.

There are tons of small hosters here, because it's a competitive market. As for companies building a website for you, there are hundreds of them even in my city.

> most of Asia

If we are talking about actual production of (consumer) electronics, than Asia, beats the rest of the world, including the USA.

> World leader in redesigning bottle caps though.

Yeah, I find that stupid as well. So what you can just take them off.

> Oh, and cookie banners.

Malicious compliance to a law that isn't even specific to cookies. The US companies do that as well. So I wouldn't say that invention is EU specific.

> economic power either

EU GDP $21.097 trillion nominal, $29.240 trillion PPP vs. $30.616 trillion for the US. On the other side EU's Gini coefficient is labeled as low, while it is high for the US. China has $19.399 trillion nominal and $41.016 trillion PPP with a Gini coefficient labelled as medium.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China