Il più grande gruppo imprenditoriale europeo, ERT, sostiene l’azione contro gli Stati Uniti

The European Round Table for Industry, a business group which includes executives from companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Eni and Astrazeneca, has made a statement to show solidarity to the people of Denmark & Greenland and supporting the necessary measures against the US if things do not cool down quickly

>ERT expresses very serious concern about recent threats to derail the EU-US trade agreement reached last summer at Turnberry. The agreement satisfied key US concerns and provided much needed predictability between the world’s two biggest trading partners.

>ERT fully supports Europe’s unified stance and steadfastness in solidarity with the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark. Respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity is fundamental to international law. We urge the parties to embark on dialogue and deescalate the situation as a matter of urgency.

>Failing this, ERT would support necessary steps to defend the fundamental interests of Europe and EU Member States.

Good to know that the corporate sector has a clear stance on this

Is the phrase “expresses very serious concern about” correct English?

The sad truth is that it will be hard for Europe to actually do anything without severely hurt ourselves in the process – much more than the US. At this moment in time the US is supplying Europe with more than 50 percent of its gas, and it’s projected to surge to 70 percent in the coming years. Are we supposed to go back to Russia?

And what about the weapons for Ukraine? We’re funding them, yes, but the vast majority of the weapons are coming from the US.

We don’t have enough resources, we don’t have enough energy, we don’t have enough industry, we don’t have enough technology, and we don’t produce nearly enough weapons to provide for Ukraine, let alone ourselves.

I see a lot of problems, and no good solutions.
A couple of things we could do is to massively start up coal burning, quickly build nuclear, removing lots of red tape, and ask Norway to withdraw from the Paris accords and explore and produce as much oil and gas as heavenly possible. We need energy security now!

That’s actually surprising, good to know we’re all have enough of orange wannabe dictator

When even the MEGA corps gets that we need to respond in kind, you know things are fucked and serious. They know if US invades, the markets are going to crash hard.

Interesting and significant that industry groups would come out and say this. Makes me think that they predict that they can survive any short term economic uncertainty and come out stronger in the long run.

the headline is a bit misleading the ERT urges dialogue and appear to still want the crummy trade deal but failing this yes we will support “necessary steps”?