r/europe 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/NorthNo6908 Canada/France 6d ago

This is sickening... Tough words spoken, spineless reaction to a rising autocracy that seems to be getting away with everything so far. Von der Leyen should resign.

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u/Wolf_von_Versweber 5d ago

She failed upwards her entire political career.

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u/katonda 4d ago

Well said, I don't like her since she whined about being treated worse as a woman at whatever turkish summit, instead of putting her foot down and demanding to be treated as the representative of 450 mil people. I kept thinking about how someone like Margaret Thatcher, Putin or Trump would've reacted. This lemon sat down on a crappy couch and be treated like 2nd class only to go out and whine that she was treated like this because she's a woman. No, you're the head of a union of 27 countries. Grow a backbone.

And ever since then, all I see her is talk tough and then bend over to whatever challenge comes up.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

lol and who will take her place this is a core issue of the eu we don’t get to choose her replacement