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Success for Trump: EU Commission wants to remove digital tax from budget plan

c/europe · u/schizoidman@lemmy.zip · 21 points

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With the potential withdrawal, the Commission apparently wanted to send a signal in the final phase of negotiations on a trade agreement to avoid high tariffs between the EU and the US.

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u/floofloof@lemmy.ca · 8 points

Canada did the same. It's depressing seeing them all cave to Trump's demands of the week. It only guarantees there will be more demands next week.

u/poVoq@slrpnk.net · 10 points

I see... business as usual: the EU shooting itself in the foot and removing the one thing they actually have leverage in 🤦