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Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by probably_wrong »

Geenkaas wrote: post #7

This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.

If you want to go theoretical one would argue that this effort is precisely what you ask for: one link in the global chain has become inefficient and this page is the result of the system routing around it.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by sergioisidoro »

Geenkaas wrote: post #7

This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.

Why? Because it's reacting to the current US trade policies.

The EU is realizing that one of their major trade partner, who they trusted with critically important goods and services, might pull the rug under their feet.

Not to mention that the EU in itself is already a huge achievement in terms of free trade agreements between EU countries.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by shafyy »

Geenkaas wrote: post #7

This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.

Yes, and ideally we would have no wars, either. But because of fucking psychos like Putin, Trump, Xi Jinping and many more, we do. Therefore, unfortunately, it makes sense for EU to decrease their economic dependence on outside players like the US and China.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by rapsey »

Geenkaas wrote: post #7

This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.

This only makes sense in a simplified world of academic economics.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by dvh »

holowoodman wrote: post #12
robin_reala wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if you’re not using cookies for anything else.

Wrong. Functionally necessary cookies like login or shopping cart cookies need no banners.

$ wget -qO - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE... | pdftotext - - | grep -i banner | wc -l

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Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by palata »

Geenkaas wrote: post #7

This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.

Right now directories like this are getting popular mostly because they offer alternative to US products. Pretty sure Europeans would be happy to use a Canadian alternative to a US service.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by oldpersonintx »

sanxiyn wrote: post #19
Geenkaas wrote: post #7

This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost? Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.

Because US proved itself to be an unreliable partner.

Because the US is asking Europe to defend itself eighty years after ww2

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Post by Lio »

vanrohan wrote: post #20

Great to see a directory like this starting to include physical products. I'd be interested in having some extra datapoints to help with decision making: - How much of the product/company's supply chain is in EU (to get an idea of just how European the product is, is it made here or abroad) - Some way to show if the company is paying "fair" tax in EU (or are profits shifted abroad) These are difficult datapoints to g…

It might be worth noting that this is not specific to the EU, it's the whole of Europe. So for example it includes companies from Norway, Switerzland and the UK.

So asking how much tax is paid or how much supply chain is in the EU doesn't necissarily make sense here.

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