Correction:
“so what about the good people of our respective continents get together more often and exchange (and trading insults like those regarding smelly local cheeses and ketchup addiction) VIEWS, INFORMATION, ADVICE ETC.
Now get back to your bowl of Freedom Fries (I’m munching on lutefisk-flavored IKEA meatballs by the way)! :D
Correction to correction above:
“so what about the good people of our respective continents get together more often and exchange VIEWS, INFORMATION, ADVICE ETC (and TRADE insults like those regarding smelly local cheeses and ketchup addiction)?”
(The sentence above might not meet with BBC standards, but at least it is reminiscent of what normally is achieved in terms of English during daily business meetings throughout my country between people who work for Swedish companies that have adopted English as ‘corporate language’).