Is the EU secretly a deregulation machine?

The European Union has, as an institution, become associated in many European and American minds with strict regulation and thick bureaucracy. Rasheed Griffith has a good piece of pushback, insisting that the EU might be “the world’s most underrated libertarian project.” It was founded, after all, to break down trade and other barriers between European nation-states. Griffith argues it does more of that kind of deregulatory work today than most observers recognize.