Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Is Bruxelles next target of Clinton?

Hello,
In these days everybody is talking about the war in Yugoslavia, but
there's a war that United States are starting, this time by their own,
and this time not against one of the many tyrants doing atrocities
around the world chosen with unexplainable criteria. This time the
target of the war will be us, the European Union. What is the problem?
The problem is that United States have a commercial deficit of 20
billion Dollars, in a growing trend, and they are quite concerned about
it. Somebody indicates as one of the causes of that the difficulty of
american products to enter the european market full of boring
regulations. What is the solution of Americans? To force Europe to
abolish their regulations, very simple. It sounds funny but USA claims 
that European
Union removes or changes some regulations just in order to please 
americans: for instance they 
claim the remotion of the ban against hormones for the treament of meat 
(among which some are 
suspected to be cancerogenous), the raise of the limits of noisiness for 
planes (in Italy one of 
main problem of airports is the noise of planes considered already too 
high by people), they 
claim that Europe gives up the exclusive right on some trademark like for 
instance Champagne.
Those are the unreasonable claims of US Government: the problem is that
if the claims won't be accepted, USA have already promised a high level
commercial war against Europe that could have disastrous effects on our
commerce. Even because in this war USA could gather many allies. This
situation could also explain why USA decided to have a war burst up in
the middle of Europe right now.
Bye
Alberto

Albi (amt...@torino.alpcom.it.noncentraniente) wrote:
: Hello,
: In these days everybody is talking about the war in Yugoslavia, but
: there's a war that United States are starting, this time by their own,
: and this time not against one of the many tyrants doing atrocities
: around the world chosen with unexplainable criteria. This time the
: target of the war will be us, the European Union. What is the problem?
: claim that Europe gives up the exclusive right on some trademark like for 
: instance Champagne.
Yep, but the americans already market a product here in the U.S. called
"Champagne".  It is a fizzy, flabby white wine which is nothing like the
product from Rheims.  I suppose they want to export the crap to Europe in
the hope that poorly educated people might buy it.
.: Those are the unreasonable claims of US Government: the problem is that
: if the claims won't be accepted, USA have already promised a high level
: commercial war against Europe that could have disastrous effects on our
: commerce. Even because in this war USA could gather many allies. This
: situation could also explain why USA decided to have a war burst up in
: the middle of Europe right now.
This all started as a result of pressure from people in America who have
banana interests in South America.  They are also political contributors,
and they pressured the U.S. government to apply sanctions against Europe
because Europe buys most of it's bananas from the West Indies and Africa.
The meat problem is only the latest one.  There are ways to deal with
this.  The most obvious work around would be to let the meat in, but pass
a eurolaw stating that hormone treated meat must be clearly marked:
"Contains hormones which may be a cancer risk."  It could then be
imported, but would it sell?
The obvious way round this type of trade war would be to fight back.
Target American companies which rely heavily on the European market, and
smack their products with massive import duties.  A really neat way to hit
back would be to legalize the free exchange of software.  Imagine
Microsoft's displeasure if their software were legally given away free on
the 'net in Europe!  Of course, it would also be downloadable in the U.S.
The destruction of Microsoft would be a perfect payback, and the stock in
the company falling through the floor would help trash Wall Street!
Let's hope the Euros have enough balls to do it!
Colin Sharpe.