Posted on 03/12/2019 12:56:45 PM PDT by McQ444
French Labor Minister Muriel Penicaud on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of pursuing protectionist policies that could be sign of possible conflicts on the horizon. “I understand the point short-term but for the long term … We don’t think that protectionism is a policy,” Penicaud told the Washington Examiner. “Protectionism goes very quickly with nationalism, and that can go with conflict too.” She spoke just as the Trump administration and European Union leaders are making preparations to begin talks later this year for a new trade deal.
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Well, the French and EU should know protectionism. They have had decades of a head start.
Does he mean like how France protects Peugeot and Citroen to the point that an American car is never seen in that country?
Yup, hypocritical aholes. Champagne anyone?
The government of Emmanuel Macron is living on fumes. Anything anyone affiliated with that failed globalist cabal says is irrelevant.
Mais non, Persecco, s’il vous plait.
Says the country that went out of their way to make up Frenchy words for things just to stop people from using the names for them in English?
....oh,go pet a muzzie.
The entire inter-EU trade regulation regime is one of massive protectionism, and then trade agreements others make with the EU MUST accommodate the internal EU protectionist measures.
And their are hundreds of them.
Just one tiny example is Parmesan cheese.
In the EU cheese that is labeled Parmesan can ONLY come from a particular place in Italy, and NO WHERE else. That same internal protectionist measure must be agreed to by countries seek trade agreements with the EU. They cannot import to the EU any cheese labeled as Parmesan, because cheese so labeled in the EU MUST come only from one place in Italy. So big dairy nations like the U.S. and New Zealand must forget about the EU as an export market for their own Parmesan cheese.
Multiply that sort of thing hundreds of times over and you have the EU protectionist internal market and export/import trade rules.
He’s correct.
If France doesn’t think protectionism is a policy, why are they part of the protectionist EU?
nationalism and protectionism, i.e., American First: good French: bad
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