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Public procurement tenders in the EU for city, state and federal contracts often stipulate that the bidding company must have something like three years of consecutive p. a. revenues exceeding anything from €300.000 to €1.000.000 - please tell me how even a freelance developer who bills through their LLC can reasonably participate here on EU rates?

I don't see how this is about people finding out how their government's processes work. Most people in the EU are painfully aware of our horribly broken public procurement schemes.

I could not agree more with this sentiment. The time has finally come to rid our public procurement tenders of these parasitic U.S.-American companies, which have always had as their primary goal the extraction of European tax payer funds at any cost, often stooping to downright bribery and corruption.

We cannot allow our public funds to go to the U.S. anymore. This is now a matter of national security.