Please, don,t try to sell what you did as a win, it is shameful. Now everyone knows they can make the EU bend the knee at will. What a lack of self pride!!!
It’s pretty far from a win. It’s backing down to a bully because you know a fight would hurt you both badly, and that you still need the help of this bully against another.
Shit sucks, but that’s where we are now.
I mean, let the morons tariff the entire world. Their transparent tax hike scheme is just hurting themselves much more than it is hurting anyone else.
At the same time, we will give better access for American products in our market.
Yeah, that’s a no from me. I will continue to boycott anything that is American, except for things that really have no alternative. Hopefully more people feel the same and cut off the money flow to Amerikkka.
This sounds like a propaganda crap statement to me.
Anyway FYI , The Guardian mentions also the following:
○ Vonder Leyen " also revealed zero tariff will apply to a range of other sectors including “all aircraft and component parts, certain chemicals, certain generics, semiconductor equipment, certain agricultural products, natural resources and critical raw materials”.
○ it means the cost of doing business with the US has jumped from the pre-Trump average tariff of 4.8% to 15%.
○ it means the cost of doing business with the US has jumped from the pre-Trump average tariff of 4.8% to 15%.
The US is paying 15% in US taxes on EU product. The EU isn’t paying the US a cent. It doesn’t cost the EU anything, except in lost sales because the US government is taking more money driving down demand.
On the other hand, this is pretty meaningless because Trump always chickens out, and this will chance in a month again.
While true in part, there will be a lot of firms that will take the hit in price increases themselves, at least partially, to remain competitive, reducing their profitability.
I thought we would fight, but not this time…
creates certainty in uncertain times (…) stability and predictability
This seems to be her main point, and I disagree 100%. It seems like deliberately closing your eyes to what are daily increasing signs of the USA collapsing. And when it inevitably happens I bet she’ll be all surprised Pikachu.
OTOH I see many European politicians behaving like that and I wonder if they know something I don’t.
Von der Leyen has been a regular guest at the “Atlantik-Brücke” and many high ranking German politicians including current chancellor Merz are members of it.
The Atlantik-Brücke is a Pro-US-Extremist lobby group that has been grooming German politicians, economic, financial and media elites to do the bidding of Washington for the past 70 years.
Von der Leyen has been funneling lucrative consulting contracts worth hundreds of millions of Euros to the “big 4” consulting companies, while she was Minister of Defense, blatantly violating the public tender laws.
Then there was the whole thing with the COVID vaccine contracts, where again hundreds of millions if not billions have been misappropriated.
Von der Leyen is extremely corrupt and deeply entrenched with American dirty money.
Atlantik-Brücke annually presents the George H.W. Bush award
Say no more…
I was pro EU, but now I’m not sure anymore. It seems EU just became another pawn controlled by Trump.
The EU is a complete failure on every level. It’s time to think about a future outside of this club of little US bitc*es
Playing right into the US hands. They’d love to see the EU disappear so that they can bully the individual countries even harder. Don’t be daft. The way to fight is to make the EU stronger, not to surrender to Washington/ Beijing/ Moscow.
That’s just plain wrong
