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Is it really protectionism when it disproportionately affected EU businesses detrimentally? It's more like they'll apply where the rule of law applies and yet t

• AmericanChopper 6y ago
  > it disproportionately affected EU businesses detrimentally Well that’s a very interesting take. Enforcement is overwhelmingly targeted at foreign companies, and primarily from the US and EU. I guess you can be the judge of whether it’s a just coincidence that those are the countries that the EU has the most contentious trade relationships with. Aside from China of course, which I’d say you have correctly observed would simply not tolerate the EU trying to enforce its laws extraterritorially.
  • suifbwish 6y ago
    The EU trying to enforce its laws on citizens of other countries who have never entered theirs is like that loud neighbor in the trailer park who talks about himself in the third person and keeps showing up drunk in his underwear to flirt with your wife and to rant that that your guest wifi isn’t fast enough.