A strategic disaster for the EU, given how it has always positioned itself on the world stage, given the importance of the rules-based order in maintaining world stability, and given the risks to that stability in an era of Putin, Xi, and Trump.
It may be that the EU walks back from this decision in the face of popular opposition. But if it doesn't then history will not be kind to those responsible. This is not about the interests of this or that industry, it is about something much much bigger that risks resonating down the decades.
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I doubt Trump cares, so we can't either, and so we start again when he's gone ?
I think 'surviving Trump' is 'Everyone's priority at the moment, and so continuing with the rules based order will have to wait until he leaves, loses or drops dead ....
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Bigger than the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by Apartheid Israel that the European Union supports, with von der Leyen and Kallis declaring EU's "solidarity with Israel"?
Bigger than a policy of mass drowning of so far 40 000 refugees and migrants to 'discourage' others?
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Trump lies. The WH’s “fact-sheet“ is inconsistent with EU statement. It even claims that foreigners pay for tariffs, even though US consumers clearly do.
Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal
MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic
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Do you think there's any real likelihood of popular opposition (I don't mean opposition politicians going on the radio saying it's a disgrace - rather 'the public' & in vote-threatening manner)?
