One can be critical of those subsidies but that headline is fairly polemic. The aim of those subsidies is among others to keep the agricultural sector in the EU alive. Losing the ability to feed the own population is a huge strategic risk. Is the system flawless? Absolutely not but it achieves that aim. Should foreign owned farms be excluded even though they deliver? That would certainly risk food production in parts. Or should all farms that are owned by nobility or former nobility be excluded? That would be even more consequential.

That said, subsidies are not only paid for quantity. There is also a focus on smaller farms or those benefitting society or nature.

I guess that can count as evidence that Gibraltar is, indeed, British.

The track on the island is a grass track, certainly not suitable for cars, ambulances etc. They’d have to use the cycling lane/pedestrian path at least on parts of the way. Doing so at high speed is putting people in danger given, that the width of it all isn’t so large and driving slowly defeats the purpose. Why does everything have to be navigable by emergency vehicles in the minds of some? If every second counts, helicopter is the right choice, if not, taking the established route along existing roads to the highway is the better option, the tram bridge leads to central roads that can’t be navigated fast anyway.

Wouldn’t make much difference. The US fails to export a meaningful number of cars to Europe. Those that are sold in the EU are mostly not produced in the US. Shredding that nonsense “agreement” with the US would be the logical step and counter measures, but not necessarily on cars.

In other words, the header statistic is way overselling the impact which is meaningful in size but in all countries but Slovakia below 0.3% decrease in real value added. Even among exports, the US is the largest market outside of the EU, but even there the UK is basically just as large. The US is certainly less than 1/3 of those exports and tariffs are not going to evaporate that share either, just lead to decrease among that less than a third of exports outside of the EU (and most exports are staying within the Single Market anyway).

So, makes me wonder why that impact is exaggerated that much.

Maybe so, but still a development in the right direction.

It is nice to hear good news every once in a while.

Are they still? Western prestige cars are having an increasingly hard time in China, given that they are all run with that dirty stone age technology based on fosil fuels, while domestic cars are shinier, better, cleaner and performing better and are technologically cutting edge.

Not much in terms of US produced cars are sold here, maybe Teslas aside. Maybe Ford but aren’t the producing outside of the US for Europe?

Lobbying can work but the more it goes against ingrained fundamental strategic interests the harder it gets. Politicians do stuff for money but they primarily do it for power. What this lobbyist wants requires them to loose power.

This is just the wishful thinking of a gas turbine lobbyists and it goes against fundamental strategic interests of the EU itself.

Don’t threaten us with a good time.

This is not more than the wild claims of some gas turbine lobbyist and focus mainly on the UK. The EU is currently trying hard to reduce the reliance on gas, that lobbyist won’t change that as it is a pretty fundamental strategic requirement.

I already got it before your post, thank you. It is attention farming marketing.

Those pattern prints usually look much shottier in teal life than on the slop images. Even though in this concrete example it is not that much off. Already the image looks terribly cheap, independently if the motive.

Temu textiles have shown time and again that they are disposable quality.

The answer is more boring. Chinese optimise their AI slop for engagement. Just like clickbait of other kind this is there to make people share about it. This thread shows the success of that strategy. Needless to say that any physical product shipped will have little to do with the ad.

I was not talking about erhical companies just companies that can’t just go bankrupt without a trace. Google and Co do actually care about billions of fines. Why do you think US tech fascists are so hysterical about EU regulations. If they didn’t care they would just ignore them

That is so old school. It is rather 3sec AI slop effort, maybe even automated slop.

The stand? Probably not. The hinges? If you actually use your custom shelf it is either of similar durability as the hinge or you’ll have to replace the hinges. Low quality hinges have a tendency to break apart fairly qickly. Cheap cast iron has terrible durability.

You do know that your argument has the same merit against the actual Gestapo, do you? You also blame Gestapo’s political victims for voicing dissent publicly when everyone knew you’d end up in a KZ for it?

You’d be surprised. When fines are commonly in the billions, they start to care as a matter of fact. At least proper companies do. Criminals with scam businesses are a different story of course.