Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "VICE News" channel.

The UK is not the EU's biggest costumer, however the UK does import 53% of total imports from the EU (for the eu that's 8-18% (depending on whether you take into account internal trade or not) of total exports) and the uk exports around 43% to other eu countries, which is around 14-15% of eu total imports. The UK is the one who would be hit hardest in this.
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most people want open inner borders and strong outer borders, which is what now should be the case/gets improved. btw which elections are you refering to?
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did he say in this clip he wanted the uk tho remain? No he just said it was the UK's choice, so they should fix it and take the hardships coming out of it (which is what any negotiator would say)
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Germany runs the EU? What with their 13% MEP's and their one voice in the commision and council? If Germany runs the EU it is at the pleasure of the other members.
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the UK was against more EU integration especially on military, politics, ... They were never really for the EU, more like tagging along, officials say after the UK leaves the EU should undergo a next round of reforms, so let's wait and see
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please show the numbers, because the ones that I see show that more than half in every country is willing to have a refendum, but less than half in every country wants to leave. France, Germany are the core countries, there is no willingness to leave any greater than at most a quarter. Poland? eastern countries gain too much from the EU, they spout though rhetoric but will never voluntary leave, unless their economies grow larger than those in the western memberstates. Italy? there eurscepticism is mostly linked to the economic crisis and refugee crisis, but Italy has been getting a lot of monetary support to battle the refugee crisis and leaving the eu would only worsen any economic problems, and even the sceptici know this.
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I said/meant it would hurt the EU marginally compared to how it will hurt the US. Now if the US only focussed on the EU, fine it will hurt the EU as much as the US, but the US is basically starting a trade war with everyone, allies and non-allies. They can't keep that up, while the EU is only hit on the US market, the US is hit on nearly every great market. Decimate the German auto business? German car companies are already building many cars in the US and on a wider range NAFTA. Many of the german cars produced in the US even get exported. Now if tariffs are imposed these already existing factories are just going to make more cars for the US market instead of focusing on export. Furthermore, if he wishes to hurt German car companies, he'll have to do something about NAFTA, because there are also a lot of car factories in Mexico. Another problem is that if China is going to put tarrifs on cars (also German cars) made in the US, this would be another reason for the companies to change the focus of these factories to the US market. Honestly, yes companies will get hurt, but they will survive and probably just make more cars in Mexico and export it to the US from there. The US definitely isn't going to gain much from this. There even is a question whether such tariffs could even be imposed, because even republicans will be against it, due to some of these factories being in their states. So how is Trump going to impose them? Again citing national security seems a bit unlikely to be accepted by congress, and congress might not be willing to impose tariffs on this. The first we even hear now of a consequence of the trade war is that harley davidson is going to ship a part of it's production out the US because of EU tariffs. Even if Merkel falls, that will not be the end of the EU, it's not like she's an irreplaceable pro-EU leader, french President Macron is also very pro EU and most Germans want EU too (they just don't agree with what's happening on immigration, which in the end is a national topic, not an EU one, altough Merkel wants to rather find a larger EU solution to the migration problems). Bilateral trade agreements between EU memberstates and other countries aren't possible, they'll need to leave the EU first and deciding between the EU and the US/UK will for most countries be a given (the EU). Besides personally I wouldn't really care if most off the EU countries leave, this would be eastern and/or southern european countries and it would make it easier for the EU to reform and move forward (altough it's very unlikely that these countries will leave anyway). oh, and most of the US trade with the EU is with western european countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland) which are not going to leave the EU, they created it (except Ireland ofcourse, but they have done rather well in the EU even taking into account the crisis). Only Italy (right before the Netherlands) an Spain (28th) are in the US 30 top trading partners. To think that this trade war will somehow make/help the EU explode is laughable at best. It might even strengthen the ties within the EU with this common "enemy".
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US tariffs will only marginally hurt the EU, this while the US is starting a trade war with most of the world and practically all their long time allies, this will hurt the US much more than anyone else, everyone agrees on this even in the US, only the Trump cabinet doesn't (publically) agrees with this.
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How the hell is this not illegal? They should be fired for not coming to the senate, or at the very least their vote should become of no importance while they are away. And everyone who supports this actions basically supports non-democracy, because these kind of tactics are fundamentally against democracy. It is literally the minority holding the majority hostage. I'd like to see the dems do this to EVERY republican bill and see if republicans that think this is ok, will still think it is ok then.
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Masulinity matters Barnier is at this moment the lead negationator for the eu and in that represents the people of the EU. He wasn't elected to do this, no. But did you elect the negotiators at the British side? No you didn't, so why even Bring it up. Overall the eu is as democratic as the UK, calling the EU undemocratic is like calling the UK undemocratic. And if that's the case, does it matter which undemocratic government rules over you? (btw, even as a member of the eu nearly all state policies are enacted by your national leaders, and european laws are voted on by among other british MEP's, who have almost the highest number of mep's possible for a single country.
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These payments are not for acces to the trade zone, but for the political side of the EU. Now the political and economical sides are practically not distinguishable, but still, no.
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Skodaman2 How is the EU becoming a police state exactly without a european police or meaningfull army or european intelligence agency?
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@IamLegend256 The US is very much a democracy. Please don't make me have this discussion again and search it up. The US is a federal republic and a representative democracy.
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