{"id":230470,"date":"2026-08-12T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/fewer-rules-europe-was-built-on-coal-and-steel-not-paperwork\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:49:02","slug":"fewer-rules-europe-was-built-on-coal-and-steel-not-paperwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/fewer-rules-europe-was-built-on-coal-and-steel-not-paperwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer rules: Europe was built on coal and steel, not paperwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU keeps churning out new rules, writes Gitta Connemann, head of Germany&#8217;s CDU&#8217;s influential business association, MIT. Small and medium-sized businesses bear the brunt of EU bureaucracy, she argues, calling for a halt to new regulation and for rules that add no value to be scrapped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/08\/12\/fewer-rules-europe-was-built-on-coal-and-steel-not-paperwork\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU keeps churning out new rules, writes Gitta Connemann, head of Germany&#8217;s CDU&#8217;s influential business association, MIT. Small and medium-sized businesses bear the brunt of EU bureaucracy, she argues, calling for a halt to new regulation and for rules that add no value to be scrapped. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":230471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}