[farmfriend]

The European Union's newest members are using corporate tax cuts to win a bigger share of investment in Europe, and putting pressure on French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to consider tax reductions to spur growth and increase employment.

Awww, this just breaks my heart.

[JLS]

Seems France and Germany are isolated both politically and economically.

[kimosabe31]

"Schroeder warned against ``ruinous'' tax cuts by Eastern European countries at a gathering of foreign reporters in Berlin on May 24."

I'd really like to see an end to that socialist bastard.

[McGavin999]

I see those eastern european countries growing by leaps and bounds over the next couple of years.

[nutmeg]

find later

[SevenofNine]

COOL rack it

HA HA France and Germany and including Russia maybe it was good idea jump on US Party train and lay smackdown on Saddam

We all know your kickback to oil for food scandel dont deny it

[Begin]

Indexing for later reading.

[Bonaparte]

Schroeder said in March that German companies shifting production to new EU member states are "unpatriotic."

LOL! Schroeder the internationalist suddenly becomes the nationalist. Pretty soon he'll be talking about how the fatherland is being stabbed in the back.

[walford]

One of the reasons that national sovereignty must be preserved on the international scene [and, for that matter why State sovereignty must be preserved in the U.S.] is the benefit of inter-government competition.

Any country that over-taxes/over-regulates the engine of the economy [i.e. private business], must face the threat of people and companies voting with their feet.

It is no coincidence that those who favor subordinating national sovereignty to supra-national entities are big Lefties. They know very well that the only way that they can implement their high-tax, intrusive policies is if people have no escape because the entire continent has a homogenized political system.

Of course, this is all goint to be moot soon anyway, because Europe is well on its way to being governed under Sharia Law.

[LifeTrek]

France and Germany have boxed themselves in and are trying to do the same to the rest of the EU.

This is a clear historical symptom and could easily lead to economic or military action by France and Germany against the rest of the EU and potentially the world. They are repeating their own history.

This would be the last gasps of their dying system and a wild grasp to retain their power. The only way to avoid it is by reform - which their unions won't allow. Their bankruptcy will be very painful for them and very dangerous for the world.
DKK

[DoughtyOne]

The 'old' members of the E.U. and our democrats sound as if from the same exact mold.

[Cronos]

Rajeev Demello, is hardly a Swiss name...

[1rudeboy]

Do you think the U.S. will learn something from this? We can hope.

[No.6]

Tax cutting bump.