Adrian Weckler

And he kept going on about freeing the European people from regulation.

And it's really interesting, the two different approaches as to who is backing the right horse here.

We've loads of money over here.

Like the Germans, they've loads of money.

They've loads of savings.

How do you detect the change in the airflow here?

Because it seemed that, so you had this raft of EU regulation that was introduced over the last decade and we were definitely on a direction of travel there.

And that had a big effect.

I mean, the GDPR, you know, affected the way that American tech companies, you know, it changed their rules pretty much around the world.

Then they got sick of that.

America lurched to the right a little bit.

Trump comes in.

All of a sudden, Mark Zuckerberg starts wearing a gold chain, you know, looks a bit like LL Cool J. Elon Musk is in the Senate seat.

And all of a sudden,

uh the eu and and and regulation is the absolute pits and jd vance is threatening us with tariffs if we maintain our regulations and it then it looks like we're going to have to soften it all okay and and hence the the omnibus act and everything like that and then at the beginning of this year trump threatens to invade greenland

And we have the Grok scandal with Elon Musk.

And it appeared to me that while the Americans were sort of in the Senate and we were agreeing to delay everything.

And, oh, yeah, you know, maybe your system is right.

Maybe we are screwing it up.

And the Mario Draghi report and all that.