The goal is to threaten measures against some countries, have the EU mention exactly that this doesnt work in a single market and then the US be “forced” to act against the entire market, or the pro-US powers bully the other countries into submission to some US rule.
Then they still don’t understand how it works. Most of those decisions require unanimity. Sometimes, on very cardinal issues they can get one or at most two dissenters to “leave the room” - see Hungary - but half the Union?
Also, the French are too spiteful, the Germans too absorbed in their bureaucracy to be bullied. Everyone else hates the US on principle.
The goal is to threaten measures against some countries, have the EU mention exactly that this doesnt work in a single market and then the US be “forced” to act against the entire market, or the pro-US powers bully the other countries into submission to some US rule.
Then they still don’t understand how it works. Most of those decisions require unanimity. Sometimes, on very cardinal issues they can get one or at most two dissenters to “leave the room” - see Hungary - but half the Union?
Also, the French are too spiteful, the Germans too absorbed in their bureaucracy to be bullied. Everyone else hates the US on principle.
The EU can and should retaliate though