Like her cabinet fought to get us… *checks books 15% tariffs versus… *checks books 0% tariffs.
Great fight there, keep leading by example. Next good example is copping a cushy board job at one of the holdings for whose products she negotiated 0% tariffs at the expense of the overwhelming majority of the population of the EU.
Like her cabinet fought to get us… *checks books 15% tariffs versus… *checks books 0% tariffs.
To be honest, it was Trump that started this shit, and while it was better a 0% tariff, it don’t work if the other side want to impose tariffs on you, so maybe a 15% was the better she could do at the time.
Sure, she could have shown the middle finger but EU was (and is not) ready to lose the US market overnight.
Powerful words in this speech
" Europe is in a fight. A fight for a continent that is whole and at peace. For a free and independent Europe. A fight for our values and our democracies. A fight for our liberty and our ability to determine our destiny for ourselves. Make no mistake – this is a fight for our future.
I thought long and hard about whether to start this State of the Union address with such a stark appraisal.
After all, we Europeans are not used to – or comfortable with – talking in such terms. Because our Union is fundamentally a peace project. But the truth is that the world of today is unforgiving. And we cannot varnish over the difficulties that Europeans feel every day. They can feel the ground shift beneath them. They can feel things getting harder just as they are working harder. They can feel the impact of the global crisis. Of the higher cost of living. They feel the speed of change affecting their lives and careers.
And they worry about the endless spiral of events they see on the news – from the devastating scenes in Gaza to the relentless Russian barrage on Ukraine.
We simply cannot wait for this storm to pass."
They can feel things getting harder just as they are working harder.
So Europe will fight the billionaires who use their surplus money to buy real estate and drive up prices instead of investing in new companies to create more and better paying jobs?
They can feel the impact of the global crisis. Of the higher cost of living.
So we will conquer Africa and Asia and force the countries to sell their resources below market value again?
The war in Ukraine increases our cost of living because we have stopped buying cheap russian gas and oil. We wanted to replace them anyway. We have to build and create to drive down costs, not fight. We will fight to free Ukraine, but that won’t bring down costs.
Besides, the war in Ukraine allowed us to let friendly forces conquer Syria which stood in the way of building a pipeline to Qatar for even cheaper gas.
The big threat is Chinese progress which will take all of our high tech jobs when the world chooses their products over ours. Are we going to create or to fight to stay on top?
So Europe will fight the billionaires who use their surplus money to buy real estate and drive up prices instead of investing in new companies to create more and better paying jobs?
At least in Italy, price are high because is impossibily hard to retake a rented house in case of a bad tenant, so people keep houses empty, which add to the fact that in most places there is no more space to build new ones.
@cavoc has previously posted this France24 post about this same speech.
