Tom Nice piece of lwork, its a shame our journalists in the #UK #Media #BBC etc are to lazy to to explain the facts.
It’s almost comical if not downright tragic that the self-styled “King of the Links,” temporarily perched in Scotland beside the EU President, thinks he can just declare a trade deal.
Reality check: the EU isn’t some golf club handshake society (even if he cheats] It’s a rules driven machine, and trade agreements don’t get waved through by royal decree or fleeting photo ops.
They crawl through a #labrinth & layers of bureaucracy: the #EUCommission, the #EUParliament, National parliaments and here’s the kicker #Regionalparliaments too.
Take #Belgium, for example. #Wallonia once held up the entire #CETA deal like a stubborn bouncer outside a Brussels nightclub. If this new “deal” touches shared competencies like investment protection, every national parliament gets a vote. And in some cases, every regional one does too.
So unless he is planning to moorTrump era battleships off the coast of #Oostende and #DePanne to twist #Flanders’ Regional Parliaments arm, this fantasy #TradeDeal isn’t going anywhere fast.
Tom, with no #SundayScribbles for a month you better start digging that bunker not the #golf one.
#Trump #FruitFly attention span won’t outlast the first #EUcommittee hearing.
#Battleships #BigBeautifulBill & #TariftaxUSconsumers are already being moved from #Russia the media just didn't #factcheck
Vincent, if someone can explain to me how the EU can prevent Trump from imposing tariffs, that would be good. Sure, it can pull back from other things like dumb financial commitments and undertakings to change laws, especially since I don't recall any of us in the EU voting to let Trump decide our laws. But if he wants to impose tariffs, the EU cannot stop him. Impose counter-tariffs and start a trade war? Would that really work? I'm not so sure.
Absolutely correct No One can stop #Trumps right to implement #Tariffs a #stealhtax on #US #consumers & #workers.
In the meantim, whateverr URSULA von der Leyen thinks she has agreed will be properly scrutinies by #EU process..
You can't Stop People Doing #Stupidthings and stupid people have a hard time learning.
The mid term elections are slated for November 26. When the US will know what to do or not do about a tax on their consumer goods and jobs
By that time I assume I'm little
older *not necessarily wiser but the draft EU US Trade Deal details may finally have reach the Regional Parliaments if Flanders & Wallonia (printed in English French and Flemush) for good measure!
In the interim we should follow through on our own process and procedures regardless.
There are long days, weeks, and months ahead. To use an old phrase, we are only now at the "end of the beginning" rather than the "beginning of the end". But I do believe that VdL handled things badly and cut too many other European actors out of the loop.
Tom
Tom Nice piece of lwork, its a shame our journalists in the #UK #Media #BBC etc are to lazy to to explain the facts.
It’s almost comical if not downright tragic that the self-styled “King of the Links,” temporarily perched in Scotland beside the EU President, thinks he can just declare a trade deal.
Reality check: the EU isn’t some golf club handshake society (even if he cheats] It’s a rules driven machine, and trade agreements don’t get waved through by royal decree or fleeting photo ops.
They crawl through a #labrinth & layers of bureaucracy: the #EUCommission, the #EUParliament, National parliaments and here’s the kicker #Regionalparliaments too.
Take #Belgium, for example. #Wallonia once held up the entire #CETA deal like a stubborn bouncer outside a Brussels nightclub. If this new “deal” touches shared competencies like investment protection, every national parliament gets a vote. And in some cases, every regional one does too.
So unless he is planning to moorTrump era battleships off the coast of #Oostende and #DePanne to twist #Flanders’ Regional Parliaments arm, this fantasy #TradeDeal isn’t going anywhere fast.
Tom, with no #SundayScribbles for a month you better start digging that bunker not the #golf one.
#Trump #FruitFly attention span won’t outlast the first #EUcommittee hearing.
#Battleships #BigBeautifulBill & #TariftaxUSconsumers are already being moved from #Russia the media just didn't #factcheck
#EU
#EUTradeDeal
#US
#Trump
#skynews
#BBCnews
#TrervorPhilipsonSkySundaymorning
#TrevorPhillips
Vincent, if someone can explain to me how the EU can prevent Trump from imposing tariffs, that would be good. Sure, it can pull back from other things like dumb financial commitments and undertakings to change laws, especially since I don't recall any of us in the EU voting to let Trump decide our laws. But if he wants to impose tariffs, the EU cannot stop him. Impose counter-tariffs and start a trade war? Would that really work? I'm not so sure.
Absolutely correct No One can stop #Trumps right to implement #Tariffs a #stealhtax on #US #consumers & #workers.
In the meantim, whateverr URSULA von der Leyen thinks she has agreed will be properly scrutinies by #EU process..
You can't Stop People Doing #Stupidthings and stupid people have a hard time learning.
The mid term elections are slated for November 26. When the US will know what to do or not do about a tax on their consumer goods and jobs
By that time I assume I'm little
older *not necessarily wiser but the draft EU US Trade Deal details may finally have reach the Regional Parliaments if Flanders & Wallonia (printed in English French and Flemush) for good measure!
In the interim we should follow through on our own process and procedures regardless.
There are long days, weeks, and months ahead. To use an old phrase, we are only now at the "end of the beginning" rather than the "beginning of the end". But I do believe that VdL handled things badly and cut too many other European actors out of the loop.