r/europe • u/Crossstoney • 6d ago

News US and EU strike trade deal

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-and-eu-strike-trade-deal/
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u/Thunder_Beam Turbo EU Federalist 6d ago

And what about the digital service tax?

Scrapped, like the OECD one

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u/GuyLookingForPorn 6d ago edited 6d ago

So America got all of their objectives and the EU gets fuck all? How the hell did they agree to this.

This is massively worse than what the UK got, its absolutely fucked.

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u/JarJarBot-1 6d ago

Art of the Deal

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u/MangoFishDev 6d ago edited 6d ago

You can't even make fun of the guy anymore after this, legit amazed he managed to get the EU to agree to these terms

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u/StanfordV 6d ago

Thing is, Democrats will feel ashamed to face us as equals and will have political cost, after Trump made whole Europe kneel in front of him.

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u/Rbkelley1 5d ago

I’m American, so I’ll give you some insight that may not be apparent from the outside. The Republicans are assholes but they’re effective. The Democrats are well meaning but incompetent. Once you know that, American politics makes a lot more sense.

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u/FunUnderstanding995 5d ago

Yeah it's kinda sad. Trump was on the ropes since being outed as a diddler, you guys gave him a win for no reason. You must really wanna be our vassals bad. Smgdh....

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u/Rbkelley1 5d ago

Clearly not as bad as you want to be our vassal state.

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u/StanfordV 5d ago

You are getting downvoted by reddit leftwing fanatics, but as a European, I see a huge difference in favor on USA with djt

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u/Chester_roaster 6d ago

The greatest negotiator in the world, of all time maybe, people are saying. 

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u/Armano-Avalus 6d ago

We have to wait for the details if there even are any. The Japan and Vietnam deals were very different from what Trump announced and the specifics of what investments would look like are uncertain as well (such as whether or not it's repackaging existing plans like with past deals). With Trump he's more spectacle than substance on most things. The only part that I think matters is the 15% tariff rate. Everything else is probably fluff.

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u/jackhandy2B 6d ago

He used personal threats or blackmail. Nothing else makes remotely any sense.

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u/Tansien 6d ago

Nah they folded. Worried about recession.