Every day Europe loses Competitiveness. « We are drowning in regulations ».

Editorial; It’s amazing and disappointing that Europe is heavily dependent on the imports of 90% of their medicines from China and India. Early warnings reached politicians across Europe as early as 2019. Create a list of the 10 life-saving medicines and implement the ‘strategy of autonomy’ through ‘reshoring’‘. Just think of geoplitical crises and international conflicts. In the Western world there is only one producer of penicillin, Swiss Sandoz. Hoechst Germany, Pfizer USA and GSK UK couldn’t keep up with the competiton from China. Here too, the Chinese Communist Party strives for world hegonomy. Imagine the Western world is entering a trade conflict with China, threatening to halt the exports of life-saving medicines.   The world’s leading bureaucracy. Is Europe able to reduce bureaucracy and is it capable of playing their role at the world stage? We are dragging our feet on reforms. We treat the business world as enemies. We are drowning in regulations. Meanwhile, the rest of the world moves forward doing business with one another. The world watches how Europe limits its actions to the business, technological, and geopolitical sidelines.We point our moralizing finger at others instead of asking ourselves why on earth we are lagging so far behind and standing at the sidelines. We will stay on the lonely top of the mountain of regulations. We are not able of thinking bigger, and in the long run, only our past will remain big.   Every day Europe loses Competitiveness On May 5 2026 Seven CEOs of Seven Multinationals are issuing another Early Warning to Brussels. They are Airbus, ASML, Ericsson, Nokia, Mistral AI, SAP, and Siemens: combined turnover is € 417 billion, combined market value is € 1.100 billion, 957.000 hightech jobs, yearly investment in R&D of € 40 billion, having 213.000 patents. They have the people, the ecosystems and the technology. However, unnecessarily complex and overlapping regulations limit them to keep pace with the speed of technological progress. More than three years after ChatGPT, the bureaucrats are still debating regulations.   Brussels, we have a huge problem The unelected EU-commission, EU Parliament, and another 50.000 overpaid bureaucrats do not listen and show political unwillingness. They are all preoccupied with themselves. Therefore, no one in Brussels can make a move. They are unaware that this is leading to the downfall of the EU. RODENBERG. Rodenberg Tillman & Associates, consultants active in strategic intelligence solutions.