Powell Says France will Face Consequences for Stannding up to the US

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by GP


I doubt there will be trade sanctions. Although that is what has the French so scared. ARe they really that econ-driven?

Thier economy isn't doing that well right now. That's the reason for the fear they exhibit.

[Sava]

The US economy isn't doing so hot either. In 2004 I'll be singing... "Nah nah nah nah.... nah nah nah nah.... heyyy heeyyyy... GOOD BYE!"

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Partly because the **** must not hit the fan, partly because France belongs to the EU, and it is impossible to officially aim for specific national imports from within the EU.

What form does the sanctions on Austria take? Pehaps that can be used as a model.

[Spiffor]

I don't recall the sanctions on Haider's Austria, but I recall the sanctions on UK bovines. This was an inner EU decision to forbid UK's bovine beef to exit the territory. It implied a high tracability, and cooperation from the whole EU to work. Without tracability and EU-wide scale, it wouldn't have worked : it would have been too easy to legally disembark Birtish bovines in, say, Portugal, and legally export them to all EU from there.

[SlowwHand]

Ohhh, **** France. Frog face sonsof*****es.

Dirty little people with stinky breath.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Ohhh, **** France. Frog face sonofa*****es.

Merci, merci

[Sava]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Ohhh, **** France. Frog face sonofa*****es.

I should start selling bumper stickers of Calvin peeing on the Texas state flag to the French.

[DinoDoc]

Incidentally, aren't those sanctions kind of a black eye for the organization? After all, they set up a horrible precedent and the last I heard they were none too popular with the Nordic countries.

[SlowwHand]

No, that would be a mistake of the greatest magnitude, Sava.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Sava

I should start selling bumper stickers of Calvin peeing on the Texas state flag to the French.

Make that the US flag (nobody know Texas' flag here), and you're a rich man

[Sava]

As much as I disagree with the current administration's foreign policy, I couldn't bring myself to show a peeing Calvin on the stars and stripes. Perhaps I'll sell Calvin peeing on Bush stickers. That is really the theme I'm going for.

[Spiffor]

DD :

They indeed set up a horrible precedent. While the embargo on UK bovines was absolutely legitimate (huge public health issue), the sanctions on Austria were plain silly and counterproductive. The EU is intended to have rules and precedures, not to being subject of the day's whim of some countries.
Besides, Austria was member of the EU for only a few years when these sanctions came out. I don't think it helped the European case there.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Sava
As much as I disagree with the current administration's foreign policy, I couldn't bring myself to show a peeing Calvin on the stars and stripes. Perhaps I'll sell Calvin peeing on Bush stickers. That is really the theme I'm going for.

Deal ! I think you can export it without problems in about any country too Make several goodies, like posters, T-shirts, mugs and such. Your grandchildren will thank Bush for your fortune

[SlowwHand]

Germany is just as bad as France.
Why no one gives them crap, I'll never understand.

[Sava]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Germany is just as bad as France.
Why no one gives them crap, I'll never understand.

It's easy to make France the scapegoat because Germany and America have greater economic links. Sure, the jingos could call for a boycott of German products. But are Americans going to stop buying Mercedes and Chrysler products?