The EU Vows to Stand Up To Bullies Like USA

MMMMMM cheap food.
What's not to love.

Prime rib. Not Tesco economy burgers for the same price.
**** off Iidl. **** off Aldi.

I go to America, live there for 3 months, and the price of rent plus food plus airfare = the same as living in the UK only I dine on steak at a restaurent every day and drive a kick arse car.

Much higher standard of living in America.

 

Not sure this is true. I expect import duty to be paid to our own government.

 

The EU will probably get the chance to put their money where their mouth is as soon as Putin is finished in Ukraine.

Then we will find out if their robust mouths are writing cheques that their august bodies cannot cash.

 

Utter garbage! EU and US trade whine is focused on agriculture. Its the developing world that really suffers from US and EU protectionism. It makes me sick that they play these petty games, peddling to right wing cretins, when people are dying because of our joint conservatism.

 

The EU makes it harder for American products,

The developing world has horrendous local labour laws and is corrupt by communism, or feels its unfair that the industrial revolution should miss them but not the others in the developed world, so don't care about climate issues, nor human rights issues, but when US Steel wants to re open, suddenly we should feel sorry for the developing world?

How about family planning in Latin America?
Feel sorry my foot, the developing world is just a factory in free trade and protectionism blocks the demand for sweat shops thus helping to end this greedy exploitation of developing world workers.

 

You actually think protectionism that harms the developing world (while the developed world just whinges) is a good thing? Gosh!

 

It's a solution to a shitty problem.

You can't just starve China by blocking trade, but you don't have to feed it yourself.
America is choosing not to feed the beast.
Mexico, China, you name it.
NAFTA would have to work or DACA goes.

 

In Daily Mail land perhaps. Back in the real world: it restricts economic development and ensures social ills for all countries.

What drivel! Trump is pandering to right wing nationalism, nothing more. He's doing that because he knows right wing nationalism is fertile ground for favourable manipulation of cretin.

 

And you're just moaning we don't have Hillary or Corbyn.

 

Who occupies who across the globe again?

 

Hillary would have been no different at all, just another corporatist war mongering tool answering to the same Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class.

 

Nope. Hillary is akin to May in our politics. I support economic rationality. Corbyn achieves that. Trump, as shown by his damaging use of protectionism for political selfishness, doesn't

 

What do you mean?
Who occupies who from where?
EU wants to be exempt, USA is standing up to the EU calling for the EU to remove tariffs on American products, and the EU can't handle it and begrudgingly accepts Brexit.

 

I heard Hillary had protectionist policies too and that they were unavoidable. TBH.

 

Militarily love.

 

The Wall Street/donor/"job creator" class has it covered "either" way.

 

Well May's pushing for Brexit and Hillary would have been a protectionist too, so congratulations @Reiver, you're a Conservative

Hmmm...

I suddenly want a bigger army.

 

We're cannibalizing society economically to do so, like empires in decline always do.

 

I'm a Brexit supporter, but not for the reasons that the Tory elite (code for scum some might say) support. Nor am I blind over the harm that Britain, as part of the EU, has done for world trade. It won't improve with Brexit as Britain won't use bilateralism to aid world trade. Even if it cared (and it doesn't), supporting development requires multilateral agreement through the WTO.

 

Those who would enslave others are occupied by those who do not.
Lest we forget.

 

Thank God America are doing this

 

Given that stupidity will harm both American and European populations, your God is suspect!

 

Demanding EU take remove tariffs on steel and aluminium and other American products is great for tariff free trade.
If EU doesn't make things easier for USA to sell here, I don't see any other option.

 

Don't be naive. This is about increasing tariffs, as the US panders to cretinous nationalism.

 

Don't side with the bullies and force a European agenda onto America and side with the EU demanding America opens up for EU while EU has 74.7% tariff on steel in place making American imports harder.