Europe is great because you can never find clear information about laws because we peasants are not intended to know them, and even if you do they are written in unclear, useless legalese, because the real law is just "whatever we don't like is illegal," which is "everything."

U.S. laws and regulations at least attempt to set clear, simple, and fair guidelines and punishments, but European laws are all deliberately written to be like "the fine can be between zero to one trillion euros" and "breathing in an unsanctioned manner can be an infraction."

I don't think the U.S. comes anywhere close to being as clear, simple, and fair as Americans would like, and that's not a minor problem to forgive, but it's edifying to see how Europeans just dispense with the illusion entirely and write themselves total discretion into the law.

In practice the difference comes down to that in America if you are doing something "they" don't like, you at least stand a fighting chance of getting away with it after millions of dollars in lawyers and payoffs, whereas in Europe you can rest easy knowing there is no chance.

It seems like if you want to do anything in Europe you are better off trying to first get the government to pass a law positively affirming it must be done, rather than trying to ensure there are no laws prohibiting it lol