As if there weren’t enough reasons to drop Via/Mastercard already…
Europe must fight back against Trump boldly.
In reality EU tries to appease him left and right.
…mostly the right atm…
The difficulty lies in the history where America held the purse strings and made the rules, EU is wising up to an unreliable (psychotic) US and is, in its historically ponderous way, starting to get some separation.
The article talks about the contra sanctions that forbid companies from following trough with the US sanctions.
What isn’t mentioned is that the parliament has already voted in favor for this https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/detail?id=2026Z08115&did=2026D18200
But knowing the gov they probably won’t do it.
Sometimes I ask what the point of motions in parliament are then.
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