US threatens EU with retaliation over European preference in EU budget
Washington said that the competitiveness fund included in the budget would “impede” partnership with the US because of provisions favouring “made in Europe” products.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/15/us-threatens-eu-with-retaliation-over-european-preference-in-eu-budgetOpen linkView original on piefed.ca
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Shoulda been in Gitmo on January 21, 2021. If they want a unitary executive, give it to them.
Oh, is prison the punishment for treason now?
Murican bullets are now made of low Quality materials
Wait, so america first can preferentially buy american but Europe cant do the same thing? Typical american 💩
It's a direct response to Trump's own policies, yes he's whining about it like a petulant child
The US expects the EU to act like a vassal state.
That's literally the point you dimwitted dingleberries. Nobody likes you.
The party of "alpha males" sure like to cry when things don't go their way.
force all NATO countries to up their defence budget and insist that the "free ride ends now"
they make their own stuff instead of buy from you like your handlers budget plan depends on.
shocked pikachu meme
I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self that Bush was gonna look like a genius compared to the next Republican president.
Same. Jesus christ, it really can always get worse. What was parody is now reality.
“Tribal sovereignty means that. It’s sovereign. You’re a … you’re a … you’ve been given sovereignty and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity.”
-- W
The EU is mostly enforcing reciprocal levels of market access. Trump can fix this any time he wants.
And that is exactly the reason it was done. Thanks for vindicating it mr Trumplin.
LOL, fuck all the way off, pedo.
I am getting such weirdly aggressive messages in my inbox as a result of posting this article lol
Not you bud, pedo Trump.
I know, it just looks weird in my inbox in the split second before I look at what it's in response to.
I browse using Voyager, it has a built in Reader which avoids all that shit.
As soon as I saw first popup I flipped Reader on, easy peasy.
Wow! I had completely missed this feature, thank you
Or in my case, with Boost, the links are just opened in the system browser (Firefox), which also has reader mode. And adblock.
Are you not using an ad blocker or something?
It’s the only way to fly
uBlock Origin is your friend.
Nothing American made is worth the price so fuck off.
Cool, so we're pulling back from Europe, I hope?
When the girls get farther from you, it's not you who's moving.
Does it matter who moves if the goal was always distance?
You think trump would move the nukes away from the people he's threatening? This might be the one move that could make US generals put a bullet in is head though, so I get the sentiment