US/EU Trade War Looms

A must read posting on Autonomous Mind this morning is linked here. The concluding paragraph has to be quoted in its entirety on this blog:

After years of acting with impunity against the interests of the citizens of the member states, the EU now finds itself facing proper concerted opposition to its behaviour.  This could become part of a snowball effect as Brussels comes under attack from multiple directions on multiple issues and add to a sense of crisis across the political class within the bloc.  We are now living in what the Chinese call ‘interesting times’.