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Originally Posted by jfman

"If the EU ever introduce anything beneficial to businesses".

Frictionless trade to 500 million potential customers?

Giving your staff 4 weeks annual leave and a maximum 48 hour week (why not employ more people if you need more yours) are presumably minor incidental benefits of the EU.

You've made a selective misrepresentation. Nomad's sentence was:

"If the EU was ever to introduce something that was actually beneficial to businesses, they wouldn't want anybody else to introduce it. The aim is to put the same restrictions on EU businesses, that the French and Germans put on their own businesses. They don't want anybody else to have an economic advantage over them."

i.e. by introducing 4 weeks annual leave and a maximum 48 hour week across the EU, they wanted to ensure that the level playing field was maintained - something anti-competitive. "Luckily" we gained an opt-out.