If more and more businesses just simply didn't play the game, told them to pound sand, their economy could falter from all the imports and outside business leaving. The EU could be choked into a depression and forced to undo those laws. Granted it might be exactly what the globalists in Brussels/Strasbourg want.

But no one does that, because businesses chase after every chance at those minute percentage profit increases. It's not just the EU, but the stock market and investors that have an iron grip on a large section of this too.