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EU to Trump: Trade barriers, building walls 'doomed to fail'
Associated Press ^ | Jan 24, 2017 8:07 AM EST

Posted on 01/24/2017 7:46:24 AM PST by Olog-hai

The European Union trade chief says the trade policies U.S. President Trump has set out are “doomed to fail” and that the world’s biggest trading bloc remains committed to open borders and economies.

EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said Tuesday that most countries still share the same vision of open trade and investments.

She said that “building a wall is not the answer. The success of the EU relies on our open societies.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: eussr; schengen; socialmarketeconomy; trump
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Yeah: meanwhile in response to Brexit, that is exactly what the EU is talking about imposing—hard borders (especially in Ireland between the North and the Republic) and trade barriers.
1 posted on 01/24/2017 7:46:24 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

With all the unwise decisions by European leaders, they cannot be taken seriously.


2 posted on 01/24/2017 7:48:51 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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They should know. We’ve seen how Europe is prospering with their borders wide open and Muslims pouring in by the millions.


3 posted on 01/24/2017 7:49:32 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Olog-hai

The NWO right in everyone’s faces!


4 posted on 01/24/2017 7:50:02 AM PST by dowcaet
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“The success of the EU relies on our open societies.”

Success stories like Germany and France? Anyone seen the pictures of Paris now? If you are a female in Europe, you probably do not feel safe at all, what with the Muslim rapists on the prowl in absence of any manhood left in native Europe.


5 posted on 01/24/2017 7:50:12 AM PST by odawg
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To: Olog-hai

The truth and the EU appear to be strangers.


6 posted on 01/24/2017 7:52:16 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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The EU has more trade barriers than the USA. Give me a f’ing break.


7 posted on 01/24/2017 7:52:16 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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If European state borders are so 1870’s then why the fark do they want us to keep investing in NATO to defend their borders from the red menace!?

And muttering about forming an EU army


8 posted on 01/24/2017 7:53:53 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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"...The European Union trade chief says the trade policies U.S. President Trump has set out are “doomed to fail” and that the world’s biggest trading bloc remains committed to open borders and economies..."

Gee. They really don't get it. Let's see where those open border policies take them.

Until then, and forever after, they can go pound sand.

9 posted on 01/24/2017 7:54:53 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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The truth and the EU appear to be strangers.

Blood enemies.

10 posted on 01/24/2017 7:54:57 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Like THEY would actually know about such things...............


11 posted on 01/24/2017 7:55:18 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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Sounds like EU isn’t going to be our friendly ally much. Welcome Australia, Japan, UK and Russia


12 posted on 01/24/2017 7:58:01 AM PST by pangaea6
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To: Morpheus2009

Lezzzsee, how may wars have we bailed them out of so far?


13 posted on 01/24/2017 7:59:58 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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U.S.A. too E.U., the only thing doomed to FAILURE is you!


14 posted on 01/24/2017 8:00:13 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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No trade barriers, No walls...doomed and failing...!!!

They will follow our lead soon or Europe will be the new addition to the Middle East.

Love Europe and the people, but will not travel there with their new diversity standards. 2015 went to Paris and London and Switzerland, the first two were where you had to be on guard and we had early dinners to be back at the hotel when the hoodlums came out for the evening.


15 posted on 01/24/2017 8:03:13 AM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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The EU never was. They always played the US off the USSR before the Cold War ended; and they played politics in the Balkans against promises that Bush Senior made to Russia with respect to NATO not interfering in the former Soviet bloc (particularly Germany’s recognition of the independence of Croatia and Slovenia from Yugoslavia).

The founders of the EU always wanted to create a “third power” in the region, against the USA and not for it; and they still hold onto that. The Islamic influx is just a “beneficial crisis” to get a sufficient number of nations to give up their sovereignty (and military) to a centralized power.


16 posted on 01/24/2017 8:03:34 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Let’s check the record.

Great Wall of China - worked
Hadrian’s Wall in Britain - worked
Israel’s Wall to keep out Paleo terrorists - worked.


17 posted on 01/24/2017 8:03:48 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Friday, January 20, 2017. Reparations end.)
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“The success of the EU relies on our open societies.”

I would agree with that sentiment IF those societies were "European", but they are letting in millions whose values are completely incompatible with traditional European values.

18 posted on 01/24/2017 8:05:26 AM PST by dfwgator
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yes...

Just like Brexit was doomed to fail.

Just like Trump candidacy was doomed to fail...

You mean that kind of doomed? Then this is great news!


19 posted on 01/24/2017 8:07:02 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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Trump will take that as a challenge.

20 posted on 01/24/2017 8:08:18 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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