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2017-06-01 Europe

Schulz to Trump: Dropping Paris agreement means no trade talks

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-06-01 10:03|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Looks like the transatlantic trade will have to go through the UK then...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-06-01 10:29|| 2017-06-01 10:29|| Front Page Top

#2 American manufacturers get some much-needed (and in the case of Detroit, I do mean MUCH-needed) competition

BS. When the oil embargo hit, it was the Japanese that was on board to give Detroit competition, not the Germans. It's the Japanese and now Koreans that are the competition, not the emission rigging Germans.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-01 10:42|| 2017-06-01 10:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Also - I thought trade agreements were run through the EU for member states?

Posted by Raj 2017-06-01 10:58|| 2017-06-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 President Trump's statement was the opening of a negotiation. Instead of whining about how he hurt their feelings, if Chancellor Merkel came back with Stephen Green's explanation, the discussion would be very different. But they've just been trying to bully him into signing on to their Paris agreement, the one President Obama so grandiosely signed with his presidential pen without submitting to the Senate for approval, and a great many insulting things have been said by all and sundry over there -- "he acted like a drunken tourist" not being the worst of it.

It won't do anyone any real harm to maintain the status quo for a year -- unchanging conditions make corporate planning easier, and allows all parties time to figure out what they really want and are willing to pay for it.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-06-01 17:09|| 2017-06-01 17:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Paris Agreement goes down, stock market goes up. What's not to like ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-01 17:10|| 2017-06-01 17:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Schultz knows nothing! He sees nothing! He knows nuh--thing!

Posted by charger 2017-06-01 18:53|| 2017-06-01 18:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump should drop that it was the German emission rigging (and tepid German response) that convinced him that even the Germans aren't serious about the climate game.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-06-01 19:25|| 2017-06-01 19:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Germany already pays 3 times the USA for electricity and 4 times for natural gas. That will only increase with the USA out of the climate accord.

After labor, energy is the biggest input cost for most industries.

Posted by phil_b 2017-06-01 19:38|| 2017-06-01 19:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Rand Paul said "I think it would be terrible for our country. We have the potential of losing 6 million jobs and it would cost $3 trillion...and nobody gets to vote on it—I think that’s outrageous."

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-01 21:06|| 2017-06-01 21:06|| Front Page Top

#10 But OTOH, WE can gain 12 millions jobs and add 6 trillions dollars to our incomes.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-06-01 22:02|| 2017-06-01 22:02|| Front Page Top

#11 OK

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-01 22:49|| 2017-06-01 22:49|| Front Page Top

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