The European Union pledged to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy resources from the United States. Experts say that’s unrealistic and could hurt Europe’s climate goals.
Add the 600 billions in promised investments, that the EU cannot influence (since they are private) and you get the impression that this deal is just a temporary stop-gap from the perspective of the EU. Make outlandish promises that you can’t possibly keep, because that makes the USA feel good about herself, but you already know the deal is not going to last long enough for anyone to remember the promises made at the beginning.
I fucking hope you’re right!
Everything I’ve read about this deal is objectively awful and likely to have dire consequences for not just all of Europe but all of humanity if followed through with.
As an EU resident: we promised him that during the next migration of flying unicorns, they would land in the US.
We’re not even going to cheat. Unfortunately flying unicorns don’t exist.
Nah they caved to the US. Which is BS they should be diversifying away from them.
Don’t fool yourself. You’re just going to bend over backwards like all the times in history, when US comes knocking. But do tell us how you’re going to boycott them again.
There is nothing to do with the goods that are supposed to be bought, definitely at the price they sell - and the investments are supposed to be made voluntarily by the private sector.
Nobody’s going to do it. There’s no incentive mechanism and no enforcement mechanism except warm vapour out of politicians’ mouths.
Realistically about 30% of this is maybe going to happen.
Also, what “all times in history” are you referring to? I doubt you have an overview of all trade disputes between the US and EU, and their outcomes.