Comment by TacticalCoder

Taxes and bureaucracy.

It is beyond insanity. And should you succeed in France/Belgium/Spain you'd be seen as the evil capitalist responsible for all that is wrong in the EU.

The whole mentality is rotten.

The EU has one big software company and it's... SAP. SAP is a drop in the bucket compared to the big US or Chinese tech firms (I don't think SAP is worth even 1/10th of any GNAFAM). But there's worse: I think SAP's market cap is worth basically as much as the next 50 or next 100 (or maybe basically all the others) EU software companies. Something crazy like that.

So one successful software company (thankfully we have Germany in the EU and SAP if, of course, German).

It's a failure whose level of failure cannot be understated.

A complete, total and utter failure.