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That still needed EU approval. Ireland can sell it's beef to the US at a different rate than other EU countries (all Irish beef is grass fed and thus premium gr
by s_dev 3y ago
That still needed EU approval. Ireland can sell it's beef to the US at a different rate than other EU countries (all Irish beef is grass fed and thus premium grade) again needs EU approval.
The EU doesn't mind exceptions to her rules once it can approve or disapprove of them thus preserving the EU trading bloc. People really do think there is a 'gotcha' though e.g. US President Trump getting schooled by Merkel thinking he could just repeat the question and she would give in. I can assure you though these things are very rules based.
- ajuc 3y ago> That still needed EU approval Half the EU (basically the whole Eastern Europe) protested. Germany did it anyway.
- s_dev 3y agoGermany holds a lot of sway in the EU. My point is that Germany didn't do this unilaterally.
- ajuc 3y agoNo, they did it bilaterally (with Russia) because France didn't mind. This is the problem with EU.
- p_l 3y agoBecause even the countries publicly opposing might have ultimately voted for, or fucked up their vote. For example on Nord Stream 2, there was a polish vote "yes", despite there being a lot of very public opposition from the government to it - NS2 was regularly used as part of scaremongering tactics about germans.
- ajuc 3y agoCould you link the vote you mentioned? AFAIR Poland blocked it several times, including in 2015 and 2021. I googled a bit and couldn't see any EU vote in which Poland supported Nord Stream 2.
- p_l 3y agoI will dig it out - it was effectively deep in the minutiae of arranging framework plans (which are nonetheless important for setting future direction of big infrastructure projects like this). It wasn't only vote, but by being careless earlier I think at least polish representatives reduced our chances of blocking NS2
- PlutoIsAPlanet 3y agoRules and asterisks are one of the Commissions best exports.