In response to the imposition of new, unjustified US tariffs on EU steel and aluminium imports, the Commission has launched swift and proportionate countermeasures on US imports into the EU.
Exhausting, this is literally just bad for everyone
Just a reminder that the coming recession will be blamed on immigrants, canadians, woke boycotts, Ukraine, renewable energy, LGBTIQ+, and so on.
If you’re hoping it will make MAGA idiots reject Trump, it won’t. It just provides more fuel to drive fascist agendas.
“Now is not a good time for an election because the business community needs stability during this transitional period of recovery.”
I’m european (as you probably noticed with my lemmy instance), for me the most important message of what is happening now is that we need to be less dependend on the US. The fact that this can happen and damage us so much means we need to be more self sufficient.
As a kid/teen I wanted to move to the US, now as an adult I noticed how good we have it here.
If you’re hoping it will make MAGA idiots reject Trump, it won’t.
It might, however, light a fire under the sane two thirds of America’s asses and make them actually do something.
Perhaps, but I think it would be wishful to hope for a recession to trigger a revolution.
I dunno, it seems pretty good for Russia
If its just tariffs on consumer goods yeah, but they could get creative and pull the plug on some legal frameworks that allow US companies to siphon money from EU citizens. You could for example partially suspend patent protection for US patents. Legalize cracking US DRM on software and media. Lots of options…
I don’t think pulling down the legal framework of one of our “allies” is a good way to ever repair the relation. We don’t need to try and stoop lower than them, we just need to react fairly while building up our own economy so we are less depended on them. I think that’s the way.
react fairly
How’s that going for the Democratic party? USA has deranged lunatics at the helm. Fuck them up by any means.
Fuck I won’t even be mad if a European billionaire hired an assassin to take care of Musk.
Enough of this dystopia, let’s have some Ludlum/Forsyth thriller, as a treat.
Nah this is the perfect chance to get rid of these horribly damaging laws that have kept us from achieving genuinely good technological progress. They were forced on us by the US under the threat of tariffs. It would be reasonable and poetic for these laws to be buried under exactly these conditions.
I heard mostly about the tariffs against canada and mexico before. Are these just “make economy shit again”-logic, or like are the canada tariffs argued to be for them to annex? For mexico to… " not send their best people"? EU for… Greenland? I guess it is more “random bullshit: go!” that is the strategy here. Or are they argued by the americans to be directly linked?
- First, the Commission will allow the suspension of existing 2018 and 2020 countermeasuresagainst the US to lapse on 1 April. These countermeasures target a range of US products that respond to the economic harm done on €8 billion of EU steel and aluminium exports.
- Second, in response to new US tariffs affecting more than €18 billion of EU exports, the Commission is putting forward a package of new countermeasures on US exports. They will come into force by mid-April, following consultation of Member States and stakeholders.
We should tax the US propaganda imports.
I can’t see anything related to services, only plain old-economy imports. Am I mistaken?
Too bad to not tax Google, Facebook, X and other leeches.
Just block national access to Xitter, Musk will drop the tariffs if he has to face consequences.
Can a tariff be imposed on technology?
Non-tarrif counter measures are a thing. And you can really be as creative as you want there.
Do what the Chinese do and introduce a law where 51% of a foreign multinational must be locally owned and operated.
Force the break-up of large corps through anti-trust action.
Minimum pricing rules on posts and / or account creation.
Prohibitions of phones in schools.
Updated data protection laws banning the collection and sale of personal data and applying copyright law protections. Allow individuals to sell their data if they choose to.
Introduce laws that categorize ‘trending’ and algorithmic manipulation as ‘editorialising’ and regulate the behaviour as you would any other media.
