🇦🇷 Argentina shows how it’s done: Real deregulation | 🇪🇺 Question to Europe: Why can’t we do the same?

Here are a few concrete examples: 
✅ Abolishing hundreds of unnecessary business licensing requirements 
✅ Simplifying import procedures and accelerating customs clearance 
✅ Removing outdated labor, trade, and tax regulations 
✅ Digitally streamlining numerous registration and administrative processes 
✅ Eliminating reporting obligations that add no safety or control value 
✅ Modernizing public procurement for greater transparency and efficiency 

🇪🇺 And here in Europe? We’re currently debating the European Commission’s 2026 Work Programme, titled “Europe’s Moment of Independence.” And once again, the topic of “cutting red tape” is on the agenda. 

What frustrates me most is this: we’ve been discussing deregulation for years, yet instead of progress, we remain trapped in complex structures, political caution, and institutional inertia. 

Over the past 30 years, Brussels has launched a new “deregulation” initiative roughly every two years - from Jacques Santer’s SLIM Initiative, to Romano Prodi’s Better Regulation Action Plan, José Manuel Barroso’s Administrative Burden Reduction Programme, Jean-Claude Juncker’s REFIT Initiative, and Ursula von der Leyen’s Fit-for-Future Platform… just to name a few in European Parliament and Council of the European Union.
And what has come of all this? Nothing. ❌

So, a question to Radio Yerevan: if a country like Argentina - in full crisis mode - can manage to slash hundreds of rules and digitize key processes, how deep does Europe need to fall into crisis before we can do the same?

It’s high time that “European deregulation” became more than just a policy-maker employment programme. It’s time for bold and decisive cuts. 

💬 What do you think?