Another oligopoly in action. I would maintain, however, the EU countries allow capitalism only as a means to their end of socialism. They realize socialism cannot pay for the social programs so they tolerate capitalism a little. Here, conservatives prefer capitalism and tolerate socialistic programs because of altruistic pressures from our left. Meaning, we like moving to the right while the EU has no intention of moving away from the left.
I think that we can look however to Germany in the future moving towards the right because they will not tolerate a bad economy for long it does not suit the German philosophy.