Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.
I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.
We have to ensure politically that what's doable can indeed by translated into law, but what's not doable mustn't become European law. Otherwise, the auto industry will work somewhere with higher carbon emissions - and we can't want that.
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.
We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.
Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.