Von der Leyen and Trump strike EU-US deal with 15% tariff for the bloc
Von der Leyen and Trump strike EU-US deal with 15% tariff for the bloc
I hope they do make the details public, but it does look like EU bent the knee with this one.
Frexit, please, and fast.
This is a mistake. It shows weakness. Build trade partners elsewhere and ignore trump and the US.
This is still just a tentative deal that has to be ratified by all the countries so there's still hope.
Friendly reminder that you can use this site to find your MPs in the European Parliament. Remind them that they are there for and because of us, and let them know what you think of this kind of deal making.
If EU doesn't stop this recent festival of stupidity the European project will go nowhere fast. There's already a huge problem with the rise of euro-scepticism and these bellends just add fuel to fire. I'm tired boss.
Anyone disappointed should just boycott everything coming from the USA, from companies owned by the USA (PE, stock market, etc).
Start with easy stuff. Like benzin/diesel for your car. Don't go to esso or jet. Then, stop drinking Coca-Cola, Pepsi, etc. or going to the McDonald's. Boycott Tesla, Ford & Co.
Cancel your Netflix and Amazon prime, and buy CDs, DVDs and blue rays.
Stop buying iPhones. Move away from Microsoft and Google as much as possible. In your private life and your companies. Go open source.
Trade wars are a problem only for the seller if there are no buyers.
How is buying DVDs and blurays better than Netflix subscription, if they are American content?
For one: ownership. Nobody can take away your DVDs legally.
Second: you can buy 2nd hand. Only the (local) reseller makes money.
Third: you can buy local content...
Fourth: no recurring sales for Netflix & co. And this is huge. Because they use their ARR to get financing, Netflix & co need you to pay monthly. Buying DVDs is much less predictable and does not give them the same financial power.
Fifth: you can lend them. Want to share a movie with friends? They didn't need their own subscription. You can just lend them the DVD. Again: less sales.
Finally: once you start going this, your discover your local ecosystem. Libraries, associations, forums etc. With doing like this for culture (Books, music, movies), tools, and even expertise.
Buy it second hand. They can have their initial sale a decade ago and no residual income. I'll buy it from you when you don't want it or need some cash! Better burn a backup as well before it gets scratched. Don't accidentally lose twenty backups at your friends houses though.
Well, the DVDs and Blu-rays do not have to be of American media. But if they are, they can be of the several European special boutiques and distributors that can merely license the media you specifically care for. I'm sure that there are many American Filmmakers and artists we all still want to support and even increase visibility amongst the current circumstances. This allows one to have that level of targeting and to have specific and personal input, instead of just contributing to giant conglomerates that screw the artists out of fair revenue before moving to screw their costumers at every turn, which is what streaming services are.
With physical media, one can also borrow or lend amongst each other at leisure. Or check them for free from libraries. This is also about cultural sovereignty and increases the resiliency in communities when it comes to culture. And in times of instability and economic hardship it becomes even more necessary.
Media is like anything else, the more people owning it the better. We don't want culture to be in the hands of just a few. That is the wrong direction for everything.
But I'm suspect because I've never stopped this habit and I prefer European cinema and World Cinema to American in the first place.
I also enjoy going to screenings in my local cineclub. There's a wonderful sense of community and great discussions to have. And it's so much cheaper and fulfilling than going to the Multiplex which is impersonal and encourages mindlesness.
If you're more into TV series, the U.S. does have the monopoly of interest. But I assume this is much more about visibility and a failure of venues to publicise TV series of other places. The absence of TV Series Festivals like Film Festivals that can obtain visibility for them is partially the answer that is missing. But I still remember the craze with the Scandinavian output, which had hits like "Forbrydelsen" (The Killing) or Bron (The Bridge), and both got American Remakes that were quite disappointing in comparison. But the biggest hit that came out of that was probably Borgen. Wonderful show.
But even in English, I much prefer to watch shows coming out of Britain than the U.S. And with BBC, you only need a VPN to access their shows and documentaries for free. It's public domain there. If you are from the U.k. than this is an unnecessary step.
Some people have suggested that we should push the E.U. to start a streaming service that made content created by European Public owned Networks and Radiostations available to all countries in the EU for free. It's already free. It just needs distribution. It's a great idea. Although the BBC is Brittish and therefore not EU, a deal could probably still be achieved to include them.
Anyway, I will still always suggest for anyone to not get too stuck in algorithmic suggestions of Cinema, Music and Art in General. It gets stale, and doesn't force us to challenge ourselves in any form and in any new directions. Part of the problem we have in civilization right now is precisely stemming from this lack of broadening personal horizons and challenging individual perceptions that comes with the feedback loop that algorithms reinforce and cause the so called "bubbles" and "echo chambers" that so many like to point out, but so very few actually enjoy breaking out of.
Von der Layen did. Not EU citizens. Many are, let,s say, a bit angry about this issue. Shameful.
Ashamed to be European today. For all the tough talk and strong worded letters we really can't blame anyone else about being so dependent on other forces when we capitulate so easily to these thugs.
For all the talk about holding the line with other allies such as Canada, who are much closer and keeping their elbows up, this is truly disgraceful. Plus with all the far right influence popping up all over the west at the same time, which isn't a coincidence.
Besides, with the way the US is going, Trump or not, how long until this deal is null and void by them?
This is temporary as the world adjusts to omit the US. It takes time to reorient your economy away from a consumer economy, and the US. I expect it will happen faster than many expect, as the US will no longer be a desirable supplier or consumer of your goods.
They are isolating themselves.
Yeah, that's my one hope, to be honest.
I understand needing them for now, because there's kind of change needed is just that huge. But I hope we actively put in the work to break away from this dependence long term.
So this was a deal to save the car industry and it keeps us addicted to fossil fuel. I'm disappointed to say the least.
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Von der Leyen and Trump strike EU-US trade deal with 15% tariff for the bloc
@hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz Could you fix the editorialized title, please? (Note from the mod.)
I’ve tried, but for some reason I’m not able to anymore. Maybe it’s my noobness, or my Blorp on ios app.
Edit: it is the app. Edited using lemmy web ui. thanks for informing me.
Nah, just puff stuff to make him feel good. Mostly we're buying more energy from the US which, frankly, we need.
No one wants a trade war. It will just hurt us all.
Adding to that, it's only laying the ground work for a deal. It will have to be approved by all member states (which I doubt will happen in its current state) and months and years will pass until the lawsuits and debates are over. Who even knows what the US government will look like at this point. Yes, it may be bad optics right now, but I feel like a lot of people assume this is a done deal and not just regular politics.
Trump called the Japanese deal he never actually made the biggest deal in history, this could be the same thing here ultimately
Same thing with China and the UAE as well. The "deal" is not worth the paper it is printed on, it's merely a band-aid to get down from the 30% tariff ASAP.
Asked about what concessions, if any, the US had made in the talks, the Commission chief replied with a general remark about shared prosperity.
"The starting point was an imbalance, a surplus (of goods) on our side and a deficit on the US side. We wanted to rebalance the trade relation, and we wanted to do it in a way that trade goes on between the two of us across the Atlantic," she said.
Let me get this straight… EU has a lot of goods the US needs. US does not have a lot of goods the EU needs. So the EU, which seems to have the upper hand, agrees to sell their goods to the US at a lower price? Is this mainly to avoid stepping on the toes of EU merchants that would like to sell to the US market specifically?
EU has a lot of goods the US needs.
Do you really? Except for certain pharmaceuticals, it seems like there are alternate suppliers for most European exports. Right now 15% is the rate for most of your competitors, as well. Doing anything other than rolling over would mean higher tariffs and losing out to China/APEC/MERCOSUR in the American market. To me it seems like the best course of action is to agree with this in the short term, and try to gradually decrease your reliance on the American consumer. Right now the US is by far your biggest export market, and losing access would be unfortunate.
Do note that a lot of early reporting on Trump's "deals" in the past have often been grossly misleading. Often counting existing agreements as new one or leaving critical details out
For instance, I recall a lot of people were questioning a deal with Mexico earlier as bending the knee that turned out to largely be just be puff agreements that they had already made before Trump
There's a decent chance that this is continuing that pattern. Though I can't say for certain of course
We did
Yeah, we need explanations here. This looks really negative