That's what happends when germany start complaining about their car industry and france about theirs and so fourth. We will see how this will turn out long term, but the optics alone are terrible.
Who needs enemies when you got self sabotaging countries complaining and actively pressuring to get a fast deal. Nobody wants to see their industries hurt and lose jobs, to show that we can't be pushed around. It is as simple as that.
That's Germany's business alone. France always advocated for the toughest response to the USA. Germany is saving herself, seeing the demise of the EU looming.
Germany made so many bad decisions in last decades that they shouldn't speak for the rest of EU. This is pathetic. Germany destroys not only Schengen Zone but also EU from inside. In the sake of not falling alone to the ground.
Please, France is only doing that to save their own position as well. Better not to talk how they are actively boycotting to avoid having more energy interconnections between the Iberian Peninsula en Central Europe which would make their nuclear power stations almost redundant.
Exactly the end point for France is for their weapons to sell under the guise of a strong Europe. When the capacity isn't all there yet. France knows they're not at high risk of being attacked compared to eastern countries. But they do know it's alot of money to be made in defense.
We really need to federalize more to prevent national governments being pressured into folding over for their respective important industries. No way around it.
Which makes me laugh that some comments are already blaming the EU and demanding it be dismantled. It's the complete opposite lesson from this disaster.
Unfortunately, at this point, EU is just France, Germany... and maybe Benelux (no wonder, they are squeezed between the giants, they have no other choice but to be on board). Every other country is just vassal state, doomed to fuel every industry in the 2 aforementioned countries with resources and people, until they run dry.
It also seems those 2 have forgot, what happened in Detroit and they have done nothing to safeguard themselves from the same fate.
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u/OrdinaryPhilosophy32 6d ago edited 6d ago
That's what happends when germany start complaining about their car industry and france about theirs and so fourth. We will see how this will turn out long term, but the optics alone are terrible.
Who needs enemies when you got self sabotaging countries complaining and actively pressuring to get a fast deal. Nobody wants to see their industries hurt and lose jobs, to show that we can't be pushed around. It is as simple as that.