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The EU increasingly embraces its role as a “regulatory superpower,” exporting rules where it struggles to compete in innovation and economic dynamism. Yet regulation without competitiveness or moral authority risks exposing Europe’s decline—economically overshadowed, geopolitically dependent, and morally discredited by Gaza.

Once master of the world’s clocks, the West now seems to be chasing the hands it itself has thrown out of whack.

The policies of major Western European countries are not understood by the majority of the population of these states because they do not serve their national interests. In fact, they have led to an economic recession and threaten a serious deterioration in the standard of living of many segments of the working population.