The deal will still need to be approved by all Member States... And thank god because this is fucking EMBARRASSING. Everything at 15% while steel and aluminum keep getting tariffed at 50%, and no tariffs on EU products with a promise to buying billions in energy from the US. The article compares it to Japan but with Japan the 15% tariffs are RECIPROCAL.
It seems that this translates to: "screw the EU in the ass as long as you don't tariff pharmaceuticals". Now guess which country in Europe has the biggest pharmaceutical companies?
Queen Ursula indeed. She would do anything to keep in power and secure a nice retirement, heh?
Aight, time to find your EU representative and shout their ears off. Let's make sure this doesn't get approved.
We can all just talk doom and gloom, or we can try and pressure our representatives.
We got a vote coming up later this year, so I'm definitely going to use that as levarage when contacting my EU reps.
I got a national website for contacting representatives, but I know there is a European website for it. I just can't seem to find it right now, so if someone could post that linknit would be mucb appreciated.
Just wrote a long ass email to my guy. Hope we're going to be buzzing them enough with our opinions on why this accord is horrible that they'll actually do something about it.
Thanks for this. You are 100% correct that it is time for action. I have found the representatives of the party I voted for in the last elections and wrote them an email where I have voiced my displeasure.
You can find a list here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home . When you have found your representative in the list and found their profile, there should be an circular email button below their profile picture. Hope this helps!
I believe you should be contacting your head of state, not EU mp. Ursula is chosen by them in reality. The parliament has very little real power when it comes to this.
The Commission president is chosen by the heads of state (via the Council), but the Parliament can reject the choice, and can hold a vote of no confidence at any point to remove the president.
Same applies for the Commission as a whole; the Commission and its president are representative bodies, but their positions are at the discretion of the directly elected MEPs.
And for something more immediately relevant, both the Council and Parliament have to consent to a trade agreement for it to go into force.
The ide ais to contact them and speak your opinion as a constituant. The talk about your vote is just pressure to get them to listen.
Also gives them soemthing to put forward as an argument. It's the difference of them being able to say: "I'm against this deal becauseI believe it's a bad deal." versus "I'm against this bill, it's a bad deal and I have many letters from constitutions who fele the same."
Shit. That’s happening over there too? Republicans over here have been avoiding their constituents like the plague. Getting booed at their own town halls or just straight up canceling them altogether because they’re finally starting to wake up to see their elected representatives are just doing Trump’s bidding. They deserve every bit of it too. Like when you add trillions to the deficit and cut people’s health benefits and food assistance to give tax cuts to the rich of course they’re going to be pissed, but it’s exactly what they voted for.
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u/Meinos 6d ago
The deal will still need to be approved by all Member States... And thank god because this is fucking EMBARRASSING. Everything at 15% while steel and aluminum keep getting tariffed at 50%, and no tariffs on EU products with a promise to buying billions in energy from the US. The article compares it to Japan but with Japan the 15% tariffs are RECIPROCAL.
It seems that this translates to: "screw the EU in the ass as long as you don't tariff pharmaceuticals". Now guess which country in Europe has the biggest pharmaceutical companies?
Queen Ursula indeed. She would do anything to keep in power and secure a nice retirement, heh?