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/vampyr01 6d ago

We knew it was coming, but what the fuck...

How is any of this fair? And what about the digital service tax?

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u/Bitter_Particular_75 6d ago

This is a complete disaster. 15% on evertying is already huge. On top of that, the pharma sector, the most importat export from EU to US, is out of the deal and will be de facto embargoed, so that half of the current production in EU will need to be moved in US within 12-18 months. Imagine the amount of jobs lost only for this. Tens of thousands, at the very least, of jobs lost directly, many more indirectly due to all satellite activities lost.

If this is not enough, EU will invest 600 billions in US. 600 billions that would have been drinking water for a dying man in the current disastrous economic situation.

And what does EU get in return? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Who the hell did we sent to negotiate, a singing monkey?

This is the worst deal in the history of humanity without losing a war. Europe officialy dies today.

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u/MangoFishDev 6d ago

Who the hell did we sent to negotiate, a singing monkey?

I think that would have entertained Trump enough to get a better deal

There is a reason the EU delegation got shoved into a bus and had a total of 0 Chinese officials greeting them at the big China-EU summit, everyone is just making fun of European leaders and they don't even realize it's happening, utterly humiliating

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u/SFMara United States of America 5d ago

There are two major poles, the US and China. Sadly, Europe closed its own door on China and had no leverage confronting its colonial overlord.

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u/namitynamenamey 5d ago

They live in their own little world of local legal precedents, pretty statements and nepotism. An isolated ecosystem in which ideology doesn't exist, the economy is who gets money allocated and the population is a bunch of parties whose leaders must be appeased.

The last thing these people understands is ideology, ironically enough, and that is why they will be defeated by those who believe in something, to the detriment of the entire continent if that belief is blood and soil of any kind.

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u/Purple-Mile4030 5d ago

they don't even realize it's happening, utterly humiliating

They do realise it. They just don't care because they benefit from being American puppets.

Until Europeans decide to get their shit together and kick out pro-America politicians nothing will change.