Re: EU asking for a lot of money
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"Unfair?" maybe - the sanctions are worked out to be equivalent in terms of economic damage to that country. Antigua has so little trade with the US because their economy is so small that to get "equivalence" they can target IPR.
The EU has enough trade with the US so they will ask for concessions in other industries first, the US will say no or not agree to enough, and then the sanctions list on real trade will be drawn up. This list will be "unfair" on specific industries but as they will target the constituencies of the anti gambling legislators and their donors it is the sort of unfairness I can live with.
Seriously someone should be telling the donors to anti gambling legislators that their pet politicians are putting them on the sanctions list. (See the steel row, the last time it got that far with the US and EU).
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Thats what sucks. If the EU went beef, steel, or even textiles and let it be known they would arbitrate for that this could be over tomorrow. The EU is playing this shrewd, and that may hurt us. The EU wants the concessions, not you or me on Party.
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