There are many ways to measure business freedom, and Heritage does the best job. You’d be surprised how many “Euroweenies” rank ahead of us. So the reflexive, “if it’s Euro, it’s bad for business” thing simply is not accurate.
It’s been my experience over a lifetime in International Trade the Europeans are quite Scroogeish in their salaries, benefits, etc. as well they haven’t a qualm about delaying payments outrageous periods of time for services rendered, and often simply creating issues to avoid payment for services, or products altogether.
Sort of a Leftist in-your-face sneering “whatcha gonna do about it” business attitude. Quite frustrating to deal with some of them as well infuriating.