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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I've been advocating protectionism in EU, even before Trump did it first.

The EU is way behind when it comes to very important strategic markets in relation to digital services... I feel import taxes in those sectors would make the EU stronger. EU might be good with cars and vehicles, but imho that's a legacy market that's not really fitting for the EU anyway, we are a dense enough area to be able to work pretty well without the need of cars (pushing for public transport + bicycles is another thing I've been advocating for ages).

The problem is that the existing big and rich exporters in the EU didn't want to get shot in the foot.. so I was very happy when I heard Trump would apply these tariffs, because it could finally be the push for the shift we needed.