That's where Brussels is located. It makes sense to have your lobbying office near the offices of the institutions you want to lobby. Less time spent travelling.
It's still an extremely risky thing to do. These kind of letters have legal value, any formal error can open you up to getting your demands rejected (and there's no plan B, the moment they find a way to get out of paying you legally you're effed up), postpone the payments indefinitely or other issues.
Don't do a lawyer's job unless you're a lawyer, because the guy on the other side will definitely get the best lawyer he can afford to retain as much of his money as he can
You're not allowing a random person access to the agent, you're allowing the agent access to your emails. But since everybody can send you an email, your agent is going to be exposed to a lot of stuff.
It's just like regular emails: you can always get spam, malware and other trash and when they reach your system they can cause damage. The agent is just a new level on the stack (operating system, email client etc) that can now be compromised by a simple email.
And then people will start using that language to build bots which can understand human language and somebody else will have this exact conversation...
While this is a legitimate consideration, what EU regulators are doing right now is a step behind: they're trying to ensure that European data doesn't get syphoned out for shiny baubles again.
Anybody setting up an European chatGPT would be golden for the moment, even if it introduced back the same centralization of wealth.
I'm happy to see that even people on HN, a space supposedly for tech-oriented people, have exactly zero clue about the difference between chatGPT, GPT itself and a generic LLM. But here you are pretending you know stuff while you try to lecture Europeans on what's best for us.
I come on this site to learn about new tech and to generally be informed about what’s going on in tech and tech adjacent topics.
Comments are usually great but I can’t help but notice that every time an article like this one is posted the discussion quickly degenerate into either a contest of who’s better at something between countries, which is completely idiotic, or a silly subtle flame war.
Goes to show that even in places where people are smart and can be nuanced, discussions that involve national identities are hard to handle.
Personally, I think it’s ok for different countries to deal with the same issues differently.
I’m fine with the US (or California if we’re being honest here) pushing for new technologies and being in the forefront.
And I’m fine with the EU being more considerate when it comes to their approach to pretty much everything. Everything has pros and cons.
I just find it interesting that no matter the platform, certain topics seems to always pull out the worst attitude in people.
What's wrong with mediocrity and laziness? Once you do enough to put a roof over your head and food on your table there's exactly zero reason to do more.
That's why Italians don't to this directly. We go to an "autoscuola" (driving school) which not only teaches us how to drive, but also handles the bureaucracy for us. They book the exams and stuff.
If you own a car in Italy, you have to locate the nearest autoscuola/ufficio pratiche auto (literally "car bureaucracy office") and get in friendly terms with them. They do all sort of car-related stuff for relatively small fees (the only one I remember is the 1€ fee for paying the car tax).
I don't know your economy but 250€ to send me a PDF to my mailbox with all the material and not a face-to-face course for me is a ripoff (they started to get this advantage with the COVID pandemic). Autoscuolas are a ripoff, is a business mounted on a bureaucratic fault. Why do I need to pay someone else for the right to drive a vehicle when in fact I already know how to do it? I do understand that if I want to get things smoothly I have to do it this way, but this is not the root of the issue.
This is not the case in Italy. While Rome is probably more accommodating to foreigners than a random 100-people village deep in the Alps, Rome is also the worst mess of a city we have. Milan, Turin and Florence are probably more suited for somebody who doesn't speak the language or understand the bureaucracy. If you can afford to live there, smaller municipalities used to deal with tourists are also a good choice. At least they'll speak English.
I think one of the most important things to keep in mind, if you want to move to Italy, is that Italy is a diverse country. There are places which are very open-minded and welcoming and places where people don't want even other Italians to move in, let alone strangers. Doing some research before moving will help a lot.
