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bencedtoday at 4:09 PM1 replyview on HN

The concerning thing for the EU should be that this valuable firm had no European capital trying to buy it. The Dutch have protected their sovereignty today while decreasing the incentive for the next entrepreneur to make something on European shores. Probably the best choice but doesn't change the structural problem.


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vanviegentoday at 6:17 PM

Who knows what other offers they may have had? Perhaps the company is just worth more to a non-EU company because of the leverage controlling vital infrastructure would give them.