French government subsidizing French cinema? Not fair, because it puts German cinema at a disadvantage.
I think when you look at it you will find that French films are not a major source of competition for German cinema. Even with French subsidies, German don’t focus on watching French films. If anything the are watching films from Hollywood.
Better housing policies in Poland?
Everyone wants better policies, the key question is what policies are actually better. If Poland for example allows housing to be build with less concern for parking spaces than Germany which results in cheaper housing, the cost of having less parking space is born by the Polish citizens that live near that housing that could be constructed with less parking spaces.
Having people be able to trade off availability of parking spaces vs. cheaper rent in different local jurisdiction makes a lot of sense as the relevant costs are born by the local population.
The same goes for playground construction. If Berlin wants to require people who build a house to construct playgrounds and Warsaw doesn’t and that leads to lower rent in Warsaw, that’s a matter of local preferences and it doesn’t make sense to decide on requirements for playground construction on the EU level.
As citizen of Berlin, I would like lower rents, less parking spaces and less playground construction requirements, but I think it’s reasonable to make that decision on the state level (Berlin is both city and a state within Germany).
That’s different than many aspects of farming policy, where it’s not about benefits that are accrued locally.
But in a federal state, the members should compete on at least something.
In the EU states and lower level institutions compete on plenty, that’s not a good argument to make if you want to criticize the status quo.
I think when you look at it you will find that French films are not a major source of competition for German cinema. Even with French subsidies, German don’t focus on watching French films. If anything the are watching films from Hollywood.
Everyone wants better policies, the key question is what policies are actually better. If Poland for example allows housing to be build with less concern for parking spaces than Germany which results in cheaper housing, the cost of having less parking space is born by the Polish citizens that live near that housing that could be constructed with less parking spaces.
Having people be able to trade off availability of parking spaces vs. cheaper rent in different local jurisdiction makes a lot of sense as the relevant costs are born by the local population.
The same goes for playground construction. If Berlin wants to require people who build a house to construct playgrounds and Warsaw doesn’t and that leads to lower rent in Warsaw, that’s a matter of local preferences and it doesn’t make sense to decide on requirements for playground construction on the EU level.
As citizen of Berlin, I would like lower rents, less parking spaces and less playground construction requirements, but I think it’s reasonable to make that decision on the state level (Berlin is both city and a state within Germany).
That’s different than many aspects of farming policy, where it’s not about benefits that are accrued locally.
In the EU states and lower level institutions compete on plenty, that’s not a good argument to make if you want to criticize the status quo.