FINANCIAL TIMES: EU LEGISLATION VOLUME HAS EXPLODED 700% SINCE MAASTRICHT, STIFLING COMPETITIVENESS
A new Financial Times analysis highlights Epicenter’s latest research showing that the total word count of EU legislation has surged over 700% since the Maastricht Treaty. This unchecked regulatory accumulation is presented as a core reason for Europe’s declining competitiveness, driving up compliance costs, slowing decision-making, protecting incumbents and diverting resources from innovation to bureaucracy. The piece underlines how political incentives make meaningful deregulation politically near-impossible.
