>A lot of those "western European" products are actually manufactured in Eastern Europe by cheap Eastern European labor. Please name me 3 foodstuffs you have i

>A lot of those "western European" products are actually manufactured in Eastern Europe by cheap Eastern European labor. Please name me 3 foodstuffs you have in your kitchen made in some Eastern EU country. >You don't have brands but have jobs, often displaced from Western countries. Goods made in Eastern EU didn't displace jobs from the West. French and German unemployment were record lows. Southern EU had big unemployment but that was due to their own economic issues, no factories from Greece or Spain moved to Eastern Europe. >they were meant to provide new markets and new labor for (largely German) established companies. In exchange, they got loads of money to raise their infrastructural standards and overall quality of life. In exchange they also had to suffer a huge increase in cost of living, food and energy prices to the point we're paying German prices at Eastern EU wages. Most of our energy companies are German or French owned, so the profits from the increase prices we paid went to them. So are our banks. The profits made by western banks also far outpace the ones made in their home countries since they offer higher interest rates and charge higher fees than what they do back home to their own countrymen. So are our oil and gas companies, all owned by western enterprises and profits go there. Yeah, we're getting hundreds of millions from the EU and sending back billions in corporate profits. Heck of a deal. From some angles it looks more like economic colonialism.