Mommy! Mommy! Can I play with him? Can I? Can I?
Posted on 07/27/2018 1:38:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday he viewed talks between US President Donald Trump and EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker as “useful”, but he was “not in favor” of a “vast new trade deal” between the European Union and the United States.
“Europe and France never wanted a trade war, and the talks yesterday were therefore useful in as far as they helped scale back any unnecessary tension, and working to bring about an appeasement is useful,” the French leader said after a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in Madrid.
“But a good trade discussion… can only be done on a balanced, reciprocal basis, and in no case under any sort of threat,” Macron said. “In this regard, we have a number of questions and concerns that we will clarify.”
Macron said he was “not in favor of us launching a vast trade agreement, along the lines of the TTIP, because the current context does now allow for that,” referring to a transatlantic free-trade deal which stalled two years ago. …
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Macron ‘not in favor’ of vast new US-EU trade deal>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You bet he’s not in favor. French farmers would turn the French countryside upside down, they have been protected and subsidized since WWII.
I can hardly wait until Macron decides to leave the EU.
Well said!
Fortunately the EU has reduced the heads of the individual countries to mere cheerleaders.
So he can just complain to his wifemom for all the difference it makes.
of course Emmanuel is scared that the French worker cannot compete with ours! By the way where are you going for your month of August vacation Emmanuel? That's the way to compete, a month long vacation for all of France.
He wants a special tariff for climate change , no doubt. He is a snake at the mercy of muslim body guards such as Benala. France is inching towards an Islamic coup
VAT is charged on every consumer product. The tariff is a tax at port of entry to which the VAT is just more tax upon the serf’s who now have a new sheriff called the Socialist between them and their Kings.
Mommy! Mommy! Can I play with him? Can I? Can I?
Well Mr. Macron, since Germany drives the EU, and the Germans seem to want these new trade agreements, I would say to you open up and say ahhhhhh.
Macron said he was “not in favor of us launching a vast trade agreement, along the lines of the TTIP, because the current context does now allow for that,” referring to a transatlantic free-trade deal which stalled two years ago.
That's Euro jibberish for we wanted to meet and talk and meet again and talk some more while we keep the status quo and maybe the Americans will forget all about this or we will get another globalist president who we can subjugate like Obongo?
Little Macaroni is in a bit of a bind if he has to submit to a no tariff & no non-tariff barriers environment. The Frog farmers will be out in the streets with pitchforks in hand.
He is trying to protect cheese and wine
The French just might have to work hard for a living.
His mother must have told him to say that
This and the gauntlet thrown down to NATO are HUGE accomplishments by our President
France is one of the big sources of protecttionist measures in all EU trade deals, just as it was in the original Common Market rules. The U.K was essentially subsidizing French agriculture.
Macaroon, that french fag, married to his mother's friend, now wants us to believe that he wants 'balanced and reciprocal' trade, as long as the US keeps up the give-aways to the EU.
The days of Uncle Sugar are over, get ready to going back to working a full week, not 30 hours with 45 days of vacation, while you suck at the teat of the USA.
Yes, I understand that it’s too expensive to manufacture in Europe because of their silly socialism. My question is why should the American public agree to continue subsidizing them.
To me, their tax issues look a lot like “not our problem”.
“Yes, I understand that it’s too expensive to manufacture in Europe because of their silly socialism. My question is why should the American public agree to continue subsidizing them.
To me, their tax issues look a lot like “not our problem”.”
The problem is, we buy more of their stuff than they buy of our stuff. Therefore, our money flows out of our economy and into their economy. They have a beggar-thy-neighbor way of living off the other economies. (At least this is the case with Germany.) Here’s the thing. The Europeans do not apply their taxes to items exported outside the EU. That’s why they still sell in the US. But, they do apply a tariff to items imported from the US to Europe and a VAT. (Or, so it appears. The tax situation is difficult to figure out. The VAT is an end-user tax.) So, it appears that the taxes and tariffs put US products at a disadvantage compared with European products they compete with. Why is it our problem? Because we are trading partners. They have stuff the US apparently wants or needs and they want or need less of our stuff than we want or need off their stuff. (Meaning they have set up barriers to entry, which is a different issue. China has done the same.) Trump has to find a way through their protectionism that allows them to save face and not destroy their native industries. (If the European leaders are perceived as not being sufficiently good for European business they will be replaced with more hardline and more difficult to deal with politicians. That’s something that would create a real trade war. Despite the New York bluster, a trade war is not what Trump wants.)
"The problem is, we buy more of their stuff than they buy of our stuff."
The British Daily Mail has been running a couple of stories about Macron’s bodyguard and him being a couple if you get my drift.
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