Boris Johnson: “Fuck business!”
Businesses: “Fuck Britain!”
Ein Ort, in dem man größtmögliche Freiheit bei größtmöglicher Sicherheit genießt? Die #EU – der #CustomsUnion sei Dank! Heute feiern wir 50 Jahre Zollunion! Mehr Infos hier: https://t.co/yoTvo2SwZi #50CU (EUb) pic.twitter.com/fwPUgnWLEs
— Sandra Fiene EU-Bonn (@EU_Bonn)June 24, 2018
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/50-years-eu-customs-union_de
WHEN the Berlin Wall fell, Europe began repairing its sundered east-west transport networks. A revived Paris-Moscow train heralded the new era. Berlin’s cathedral-like main station, opened in 2006, became the continent’s new hub. But old north-south bottlenecks are back in the spotlight. Of the nine “Core Network Corridors” currently earmarked for EU investment, six are more vertical than horizontal. The centrepiece of this strategy is the “Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor” from Sweden and Finland, through Denmark, Germany, Austria and Italy to Malta in the south. This programme—jointly funded by the EU and member states—includes railway electrification, port modernisation and the two largest engineering projects on the continent.
The reality of trade wars is that there are no winners, only losers. Trump is a slow learner, but eventually he too will learn.
On March 5, 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush placed tariffs on imported steel. The tariffs took effect March 20 and were lifted by Bush on December 4, 2003. Research shows that the tariffs adversely affected US GDP and employment.[1]
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Impact
In September 2003, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) examined the economic effects of the Bush 2002 steel tariffs. The economy-wide analysis was designed to focus on the impacts that arose from the relative price changes resulting from the imposition of the tariffs, and estimated that the impact of the tariffs on the U.S. welfare ranged between a gain of $65.6 million (0.0006% of GDP) to a loss of $110.0 million (0.0011% of GDP), “with a central estimate of a welfare loss of $41.6 million.” A majority of steel-consuming businesses reported that neither continuing nor ending the tariffs would change employment, international competitiveness, or capital investment.[10]
According to a 2005 review of existing research, all studies on the tariffs “find that the costs of the Safeguard Measures outweighed their benefits in terms of aggregate GDP and employment as well as having an important redistributive impact.”[1]
Steel production rose slightly during the period of the tariff. [11] The protection of the steel industry in the United States may have had unintended consequences and perverse effects. A study from 2003 that was paid for by CITAC, a trade association of businesses that use raw materials, found that around 200,000 jobs were lost as a result.[12][13]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tariff
FM4 Reality Check:
This is early days, the commissions draft has to pass Parlament and Council where the sovereign nations have to evaluate how and if it can be passed into local law. But NOW is the time to act and stop this, while it is in its infancy.
The campaign websites Save the Meme and Change Copyright offer easy ways to get into contact with MEPs and to convince them to stop these dangerous developments and stand up for a copyright reform which actually faces the challenges and needs of the internet in the 21st century.
For the German speakers, there is more information on Logbuch Netzpolitik: https://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/lnp257-digitalkommissar-der-herzen
EU: Uploadfilter und LSR:
