This whole thing is beyond stupid, anyway some enterprise consultants found a ‘soft’ solution to this problem that provides indirect sales but completely avoids the red tape in Europe. Their marketplace differentiates between the sales overseas and eu at the micro level to process them differently, it’s for their internal ebook sales worldwide at the moment but are considering allowing third parties, 12.5% was being floated. It’s not optimal but it depends on whether the 25% hike in your prices or 25% drop in profits justifies your time spent with the red tape, we just prefer not dealing with it.