By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the US the EU has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.

Europe’s mandatory requirements for life-saving technologies such as automated emergency braking, lane-keeping assistance and pedestrian protection have made our cars safer and our roads less deadly. None of these protections are guaranteed under US rules.

With this contract set into stone, I just hope there won’t be more volatility on the market.

Deepest contempt for your lies, your betrayal, your treason.

You are enemies.

Enemies of our rights and protections, our democracy, our health, our safety.

You are as reck- and shameless as the fascists in the US and Russia.

Wishing each and everyone who is responsible for this brazen attack on us the most imaginable worst.

You are killing me, @EUCommission . Being bullied and beaten into submission should not be celebrated. This is not fair nor balanced. If anyone ever wondered what a political take on Stockholm syndrome might look like... 😭 😂

You are killing me, @EUCommission . Being beaten and bullied into submission is not a "win", nor is it fair and balanced.

So, you want to

• surrender to a 7x default tax increase for European companies (2.);
  
• urge European companies to buy liquified natural gas, oil, nuclear energy products for 750 billion USD; as well as NVIDIA chips for 40 billion USD, to burn our planet faster (5.);
• urge European companies to invest 600 billion USD in the USA, to increase our unemployment rates (6.);
• accept lower car environmental and security US standards, and to extend this "approach" to other sectors, as well (8.);
• lower European standards, including sanitary ones, to allow for importing more US food and agricultural products (9.);
• drop putting a price on carbon emissions for US products (11.);
• drop sustainability requirements for US products (12.);
• allow the US to bypass our own checks, and to allow US regulators to declare that US telco products meet European cybersecurity requirements (13.);
• weaken copyright protections to foster the business models of US "AI" corporations (15.);
• ask the US for permission when the EU wants to change their tax laws (18.).

This is unconditional surrender. You're the best lobbyists and foreign agents Trump ever had, and disgusting traitors of Europe.

#USpol#EUpol

EU 🇪🇺 First > USA 🇺🇲

Just don’t forget that the US is currently not a reliable partner and even less a reliable friend. We should focus on strengthening our resilience against outside influences and on our shared values. 🇪🇺

In this case, China and Brasil take a principled position, the Commission of the ENP again appears weak and ready to give in to corruption.

A shame, really.