{"id":136883,"date":"2026-01-03T19:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=136883"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:10:29","slug":"europes-simplification-mess-frustrates-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/europes-simplification-mess-frustrates-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s simplification mess frustrates businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<p>BRUSSELS \u2014 When cocoa farmer Leticia Yankey\u00a0came to\u00a0Brussels\u00a0last\u00a0October, she had a simple message for the EU: Think about the mess your simplification agenda is creating for companies and communities.<\/p>\n<p>It was just\u00a0weeks after the European Commission\u00a0said\u00a0it might delay\u00a0the EU\u2019s anti-deforestation law, which requires companies to prove the goods they import into the region are not produced on deforested land,\u00a0for the second\u00a0time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-simplification-mess-frustrates-businesses\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Politico<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS \u2014 When cocoa farmer Leticia Yankey\u00a0came to\u00a0Brussels\u00a0last\u00a0October, she had a simple message for the EU: Think about the mess your simplification agenda is creating for companies and communities. It &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":136890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,46,1737,58,55,5],"tags":[392,617,138,1461,2346,1096],"class_list":["post-136883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-continental-europe","category-environment","category-government","category-industry","category-news","tag-deregulation","tag-environmental-policy","tag-eu","tag-eu-regulation","tag-european-commission","tag-imports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}