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EU bureaucrats: the dogs of belgium......

Here goes a strange wheelbarrow, with a dog in front and a woman behind. The dog pulls, the woman pushes. Whatever one thinks of the proverbial cleanliness of Flanders, it's worth recalling this amusing observation by Victor Hugo: "The Lord of Canaples," he said, "who feared fleas so much for his dogs, would not have tied them to those carts." But these are well-dressed carts, where the brass of the milkmaids gleams; every morning, they crisscross the streets of Brussels. Along the way, the four-legged drivers try to rub each other's noses as a sign of friendship, but there is no time to lose. Butcher, baker, or milkman, all these daily suppliers must trot tirelessly and arrive on time; As soon as the rope is around one's neck, the struggle for life begins.

If the dog is man's friend, he is especially the working companion of the Fleming, whose pain he shares.

He is, more than anywhere else, a valiant quadruped, regimented without exaggerated tenderness by local custom in the small and great miseries of human life; working well, but also well-fed, living, like man, on what he earns; disdainful of the idleness of our spoiled dogs who eat and sleep without worrying about tomorrow, he sets about daily work himself, like a simple bureaucrat. This is not by fear of being flogged, but by the simple devotion to duty….

source: La Belgique Pittoresque

 

GUS: Brussels isn't the centre of the world, but close to it. This is where the bureaucrats of NATO and those of the EU reside and where the sense of duty has been fanaticised to fascist levels. 

WE SHALL STUDY.... The engraving at top is funny... because the dogs are impeded by the cart, they can't smell each others but, as dog usually do.... this represents the EU at work...

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

not as mad....

"The EU bureaucracy is doing a great job of destroying the EU's global competitiveness"

Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, commented on the words of Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, who stated that the European Commission was incompetent due to the inability to conclude a deal with the United States.

 

"We talked about this: EU tariffs on American goods should have been reduced after Trump took office. We need patriots, not bureaucrats!" — the Hungarian diplomat wrote on the social network X.

 

Dmitriev accompanied his response to this post with an ironic image of runners at a distance, where the athlete from the EU is deployed in the opposite direction from the start, unlike other countries.

https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/12/1511119.html?ysclid=md541j63pm453506860

 

 

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Gregory Clark

Who's afraid of Donald Trump?

 

With his use of extreme tariffs to punish countries with trade surpluses, US President Donald Trump seems to be making an economic fool of himself.

He seems not to realise a basic law of Economics One: Nations should concentrate in the production and sale of goods where they have a natural advantage and import where they lack that advantage.

But just a minute: to the extent some countries punished for manufactured goods trade surpluses with the US are now being forced to manufacture those goods in the US, and so halt the US dangerous slide to deindustrialisation, maybe Trump is not so foolish after all.

Sadly we cannot say the same for the people of the other side of the equation. They tamely submit to being blasted by Trump. They humbly promise to cut back exports or produce the same goods in the US behind tariff barriers.

Their high-powered economic experts have yet to catch up with another basic conclusion of Economics One: If the US cannot compete in producing manufactured goods, that means it is probably competitive in the sale of goods, namely services.

So all we have to do to match outrageous US imposts on say imported cars is to impose an outrageous impost on imported US services – films, brand bags, travelling salesmen.

The Amazon lists of best-selling goods are almost all goods made abroad. But no matter. They sell well in the US because of Amazon’s superior sales skill. So don’t hesitate, Trump. Tax them hard, baby, hard. And Brad Pitt as well.

They will soon get the message. And the alleged economic experts with go back to their textbooks and discover (a) that all economies pass through natural stages of expertise – primary, secondary (manufacturing) and tertiary (services). If you lose out in one, you can hope to make up in another.

Other nations could probably replicate Amazon’s success, once it was taxed. In fact, China is well on the way to doing so.

Trump’s calibrations are rough, but some maybe in the right direction. In any case, they may be better than doing nothing.

Japanese car makers used to complain bitterly about import bans forcing then to produce in the US. Then they discovered that all they had to do to succeed was provide superior Japanese management techniques, especially in the non-unionised Southern states.

Australia could have done the same, with refinements. People have to buy. And then they learn how to produce better.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/whos-afraid-of-donald-trump/

 

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SEE ALSO: https://countylocalnews.com/2025/04/26/brussels-bureaucrats-are-they-really-destroying-europe/

Brussels Bureaucrats: Are They Really Destroying Europe?

kaka's caca.....

The EU has failed to adopt a new package of anti-Russia sanctions, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday, expressing hope that the restrictive measures will ultimately be approved this week.

The sanctions package was discussed at a meeting of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council, but remains blocked by Slovakia, Kallas stated. To pass the package, unanimous approval from all 27 member states is required.

“I am really sad that we did not reach this agreement today. I must say that we were really close. To reassure Slovakia, the Commission has delivered what they asked for. Now the ball is in Slovakia’s court, and we must get this deal done. It has been already two months,” the EU’s top diplomat said.

Bratislava has repeatedly obstructed the sanctions package, insisting its concerns over the separate RePowerEU plan be addressed first. Hungary, Austria, and reportedly Italy have also opposed the initiative that aims to completely phase out Russian energy imports by 2028.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico harshly criticized the proposal on Monday, arguing that it would severely harm both his country and the EU as a whole.

“The [European] Commission’s proposal is, excuse my language, imbecilic. Demagogically, it is the result of a limitless obsession with Russia,” Fico stated.

The prime minister also dismissed a letter from his Czech counterpart, Petr Fiala, urging him to support the EU’s 18th sanctions package. Fico said he would not relent until Slovakia receives “the necessary guarantees that after January 1, 2028, Slovakia will have sufficient gas supplies at reasonable prices.”

While Russian gas has not been subject to a direct EU ban, most member states have voluntarily reduced imports. However, some landlocked countries – including Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic – still rely on limited volumes through exemptions. Bratislava and Budapest also receive much of their oil from Russia.

https://www.rt.com/news/621538-eu-kallas-russia-sanctions-failure/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

EU bureaucrats.....

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.