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EU to reactivate 'blocking statute' against US sanctions on Iran for European firms
Deutsche Welle ^ | 05.17.2018 | cmb/msh (dpa, Reuters, AP)

Posted on 05/17/2018 2:21:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai

European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced Thursday that the bloc plans to reactivate a law that would seek to block European companies from complying with any sanctions the US would reintroduce against Iran.

Juncker’s announcement came during the second day of an EU meeting in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which had already been marked by sharp criticism from European leaders over American President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. […]

German-headquartered insurance firm Allianz and Danish shopping company Maersk have already said they plan to close operations in Iran in order to avoid getting hit by reintroduced US sanctions.

The 1996 legislation leaves it up to each EU member state “to determine the sanctions to be imposed in the event of breach of any relevant provisions of this Regulation,” adding that such sanctions “must be effective, proportional and dissuasive.”

European companies with large operations in the US are putting pressure on their governments to grant them individual waivers. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blockingstatute; dhimmitude; eurabia; eussr; fourthreich; iran; jcpoa; juncker; obamalegacy; rop; viertesreich; worldwar3
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1 posted on 05/17/2018 2:21:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Poke that Bee Hive E.U., poke it!

These fireworks are going to be fun.

2 posted on 05/17/2018 2:23:17 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Olog-hai

the EUroNazi regime in Brussels, etc... needs to be terminated. ASAP. its selling out the several European countries to the IslamoNazi invasion, and now its selling out western technology and finances to the Iranian IslamoNazi dictators.... selling, selling, SOLD (out)!
very dangerous people in Brussels EuroNazi HQ, very dangerous


3 posted on 05/17/2018 2:24:32 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

The socialist EU supporting a major enemy of the free Western world. These fools need an attitude adjustment...like being made to DEFEND THEMSELVES against Russia, for starters.


4 posted on 05/17/2018 2:27:32 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

They’ve been cooperating with Russia in a sub-rosa manner for a decade now. How else do you think we got that JCPOA in the first place? The “plus one” in the P5+1 is Germany.


5 posted on 05/17/2018 2:30:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve been driving German cars for years and I’m now in the market for a new car.The lousy,stinking attitudes of various European leaders,including in this story,have caused me to decide against another European car.


6 posted on 05/17/2018 2:31:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe America should reevaluate NATO


7 posted on 05/17/2018 2:32:31 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: faithhopecharity

Yes. Euronazis are at least 20% enemy. At least China and their ZTE is 5% friend.


8 posted on 05/17/2018 2:34:32 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: EagleUSA

We need to bring all of our Troops and equipment home, every last pfennigs worth. Even if it costs more than it’s worth to bring it home. We don’t leave anything of any value what so ever in Europe. It’s time we remind them who wears the big boy pants in this world!


9 posted on 05/17/2018 2:36:31 PM PDT by MCRD
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To: MCRD

And bulldoze and smash anything we can’t move. Don’t leave them anything of any value at all. Can you imagine how much our troops and their dependents spend yearly in Europe. Oh how I’d love to take that from the ungrateful dicks.


10 posted on 05/17/2018 2:39:17 PM PDT by MCRD
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To: Olog-hai
This article pretty much sums up the situation. Basically the Europeans are idiots, and we should always do the opposite of what they want.

http://www.thediplomad.com/2018/05/trump-rolls-on.html

Thank the Lord this President has followed the Diplomad's long-standing foreign policy dictum, "Do not listen to the Europeans,"

[T]he surest way to lose American lives and treasure is to listen to the Europeans. Europe has not gotten anything right on the world stage since, well, since . . . well, since at least the French Revolution.


11 posted on 05/17/2018 2:39:17 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: captain_dave

Clinton gave control of NATO to the EU in the 1990s, by doing their bidding in Bosnia. NATO was never meant to be a tool for EU expansion.


12 posted on 05/17/2018 2:40:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DiogenesLamp
[T]he surest way to lose American lives and treasure is to listen to the Europeans. Europe has not gotten anything right on the world stage since, well, since . . . well, since at least the French Revolution.

They even screwed that up...

13 posted on 05/17/2018 2:42:17 PM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: MCRD

That’s exactly what the EU wants. They’re more than ready to fill the vacuum with their own forces and to crush individual governments, and then become an expansionary force into Africa and even South America. Why give them what they want?


14 posted on 05/17/2018 2:42:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

With allies like this, who needs enemies.


15 posted on 05/17/2018 2:43:46 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like this will be of no effect whatsoever...
“I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part! “


16 posted on 05/17/2018 2:44:47 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: captain_dave

Bingo! Said it for years.


17 posted on 05/17/2018 2:45:41 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Smittie
They even screwed that up...

Believe me, the guy was hammered in the comments for saying that.

Anonymous May 10, 2018 at 10:31 PM

Diplomad: "Europe has not gotten anything right on the world stage since, well, since . . . well, since at least the French Revolution."

Sorry esteemed host, but in this you are quite wrong. The French Revolution resulted in a conveyor-belt murder orgy, one of the favorite past times of socialists. And like all past-times of socialists, it is always wrong.

If you want an example of the last thing Continental Europe got right, you're looking at either The Spanish Reconquista or The Gates of Vienna, though the latter was a last minute save from the standard Euro FUBAR.


18 posted on 05/17/2018 2:46:54 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Olog-hai

Slap a 100% tariff on luxury European goods.

Tell them it will go when they halt all contact with the Mullah regime.


19 posted on 05/17/2018 2:52:07 PM PDT by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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To: Olog-hai

Personally, I can’t get mad by this. No one would like it if the EU told Americans who they could and could not do business with, so I don’t see why businesses there are supposed to happily and voluntarily lose money because the U.S. said so.


20 posted on 05/17/2018 2:52:45 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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