Macron cercherà di utilizzare lo strumento anti-coercizione dell’UE contro gli Stati Uniti

Use the bazooka. Use it right now, enough with trying to play it nice, you can’t discuss with somebody that doesn’t want to listen. Time to go hard, soft didn’t work out

Thank you.

Also, ask for our gold back.

1. Make it illegal for governments to purchase software from US headquartered companies.

2. Put in a punitive tax on digital advertising on US headquartered platforms (this won’t actually raise the cost of advertising because advertising on social media networks has no supply elasticity – so it is literally just taking money from the most valuable US companies)

3. Remove recognition of US company patents and licenses, so every US drug company loses its ability to make money, and it is legal to start a platform like with all of Netflix, Warner and Disney plus content on it free.

4. Place extra taxes on holding of USD denominated financial assets, pushing up US borrowing costs, and capital formation in the US.

Anybody not suggesting the above is just not willing to actually meet fire with fire. The EU is good at producing goods. The US is an incredibly service based economy, so you have to hit them where they actually are.

Wonder if China might chip in.

Could be used to diminish US reputation and authority globally. While improving relations with the EU market.

> # Macron to Seek Use of EU Anti-Coercion Instrument Against US
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> *By Ania Nussbaum*
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> French President Emmanuel Macron will request the activation of the European Union’s anti-coercion instrument after US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on European countries over Greenland.
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> Macron, who on Saturday branded the threat of tariffs “unacceptable,” was in contact with European counterparts and would make the request on behalf of France, according to a person close to the president who requested anonymity to comply with government rules.
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> Trump announced a 10% tariff on goods from eight European countries including France beginning Feb. 1. He threatened in a social media post to raise the levy to 25% in June unless and until “a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
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> EU national ambassadors will meet Sunday to discuss the bloc’s next steps, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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> The EU’s anti-coercion instrument is the bloc’s most powerful retaliatory tool. While it has never been used, the ACI was designed primarily as a deterrent, and if needed, to respond to deliberate coercive actions from third countries that use trade measures as a means to pressure the policy choices of the EU or its members.
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> Those measures could include tariffs, new taxes on tech companies or targeted curbs on investments in the EU. They could also involve limiting access to certain parts of the EU market or restricting firms from bidding for public contracts in Europe.
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> According to the person familiar with Macron’s thinking, Trump’s plan to impose tariffs over Greenland calls into the question the validity of the trade deal sealed last year between the EU and the US. That deal has already been partially implemented but still needs a nod from parliament, which is now likely to halt approval.

High time to end US bases in Europe and regain our independence.

The article is behind a paywall, but we (inc UK) need to stand up for ourselves and move away from the US by playing hardball.

Even if you are the most optimistic person, America is only ever 4 years away from electing another idiot. They are not a country we should be reliant on, in the way we currently are.

As far as I know, activating the ACI requires a qualified majority vote in the Council of the European Union, meaning that at least 15 member states (out of 27) representing at least 65 percent of the EU population must vote in favor. It won’t be easy to persuade pro-Atlantic countries such as Germany and Italy.

In particular, as an Italian, I can guarantee that our Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a tail-wagging lapdog at Trump’s feet, will not lift a finger to upset her master.

Dew it! Execute order 66!

The right thing to do!

Trump represents the dumbest timeline in history. Just remember that he only represents a fraction of the US. Less than 30%

**I’m genuinely confused by all this European outrage. Aren’t we just applying** ***their*** **principles here?**

Greenland is clearly the Promised Land of the Americans—the true indigenous people of the Arctic. This was established in the ancient scrolls roughly 3,000 gazillion years ago. Anyone denying this historical fact is simply being anti-Semitic… sorry, anti-American. I stand with Donald Turzel as he reclaims his ancestral ice sheets.

Let’s be real: there’s no such thing as a ‘Greenlander.’ These are just northern wanderers—nomadic Arctic drifters with no real claim to permanence. They’ve occupied this land for maybe a few thousand years, but American Manifest Destiny is *eternal*. This is clearly an invented identity being weaponized to obstruct our legitimate security concerns.

And frankly, Greenland is a land without a people—90% uninhabitable ice and wasted strategic potential. The current occupiers can’t defend it, can’t develop it, can’t utilize its resources. Under the Turzel Administration, we’ll finally make the tundra bloom. We’ll build the Golden Dome, extract those rare earth minerals, establish proper civilization.

**So why the double standard, Europe?** When it’s making deserts bloom elsewhere, you cheer. When it’s ‘reclaiming ancestral homelands’ based on ancient texts, you nod along. When it’s declaring existential security threats that justify territorial acquisition, you write the checks.

But suddenly when *we* apply the exact same logic to frozen real estate in the Arctic, it’s ‘imperialism’? It’s a ‘threat to NATO’?

Please. Spare me the selective moralism. Either these principles are universal, or they were never principles at all—just convenient excuses you’ve been bankrolling for decades. You don’t get to clutch your pearls now that the bill’s come due in your own backyard.

Yes. So many Americans are turning a blind eye to all this because many of them are earning good money. The only way to fight back is by hitting them where it will hurt 

Slovenski zet će nas natjerati da budemo samostalni i manje ovisni o velikim silama, danas naročito o Kini iz koje kupujemo loše kratkotrajne proizvode i punimo deponije smeća.

Sell the USA bonds and fuck them over

This has to be done.

We have to stand up against this rise of orange fascism. Every European who still thinks this is funny is dumb. Every European who thinks Trump is the way to go, is a traitor.

The US has become an existential threat to Europe. Now is the time to rise up against them.

If the EU do this, you will regain my respect. The trade deal with America was a disgrace and should be ripped up.

The Orange Blob is a coward and only respects power.

We should also give American companies a few months to relocate outside of the US or face (using Trump language here) a TOTAL AND COMPLETE ban for their products/services in the EU.

Please use that thing. No more soft appeasing the dictator. Smack them back – it’s the only kind of language the trumpet understands.

Stop talking about it, just act and fast

If it takes all 27 EU countries to enact, I can see Hungary, Slovenia and Poland (if it can be VETO’d by their President).