How is this a loss for europe and a win for the US?
US consumers will pay 15% tax of imports from europe, US business will pay 15% tax for their input from europe.
Europeans business and consumers won’t be paying any taxes for their imports from US.
Yes EU business will loose some marketshare in US but they will still be more competitive in international market.
I’m feeling like this is the true superpower of trump. He says the sky is green and instead of calling him dumb and wrong the whole world collectively starts bickering about what shade of green the sky is.
lAljax on
>Spaak, on the other hand, observed that “there are only two types of states in Europe: small states, and small states that have not yet realised that they are small”. If Europe’s humiliation is to end, its leading nations must remember Spaak and relearn Monnet.
Spot on. Europe is too divided and there are clear Trojan horses in our midst
moldyman_99 on
Europeans need to realise that it’s unite or die at this point.
Europeans all have their own vested interests, but Europeans need to realise that nobody aligns more with those interests than other Europeans. Even if they don’t always align completely.
It’s frustrating when many Europeans clearly want the EU to be in a better geopolitical position, but fail to realise that just being a bunch of loosely connected small wealthy countries won’t work anymore. Ultimately, half of Europe’s problems can be resolved by actually integrating their economies and militaries better.
Instead many Europeans would like to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to sovereignty and integration. I think as long as the EU stays as divided as it is now, China, the US, and even Russia, will continue trying to take advantage of it.
It’s about economic dynamism, which the EU lacks due to its lack of integration, and ability to protect its own interests, which the EU also lacks due to being too divided.
Both of these factors are extremely bad in the long term, and will actually cause the slow, painful decline that some analysts keep talking about.
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I’m feeling like I’m going mad…
How is this a loss for europe and a win for the US?
US consumers will pay 15% tax of imports from europe, US business will pay 15% tax for their input from europe.
Europeans business and consumers won’t be paying any taxes for their imports from US.
Yes EU business will loose some marketshare in US but they will still be more competitive in international market.
I’m feeling like this is the true superpower of trump. He says the sky is green and instead of calling him dumb and wrong the whole world collectively starts bickering about what shade of green the sky is.
>Spaak, on the other hand, observed that “there are only two types of states in Europe: small states, and small states that have not yet realised that they are small”. If Europe’s humiliation is to end, its leading nations must remember Spaak and relearn Monnet.
Spot on. Europe is too divided and there are clear Trojan horses in our midst
Europeans need to realise that it’s unite or die at this point.
Europeans all have their own vested interests, but Europeans need to realise that nobody aligns more with those interests than other Europeans. Even if they don’t always align completely.
It’s frustrating when many Europeans clearly want the EU to be in a better geopolitical position, but fail to realise that just being a bunch of loosely connected small wealthy countries won’t work anymore. Ultimately, half of Europe’s problems can be resolved by actually integrating their economies and militaries better.
Instead many Europeans would like to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to sovereignty and integration. I think as long as the EU stays as divided as it is now, China, the US, and even Russia, will continue trying to take advantage of it.
It’s about economic dynamism, which the EU lacks due to its lack of integration, and ability to protect its own interests, which the EU also lacks due to being too divided.
Both of these factors are extremely bad in the long term, and will actually cause the slow, painful decline that some analysts keep talking about.