The other option is to just keep things as they are since that worked for decades. It’s not like you improve anything by just changing who sells in demand Chinese imported products or where they ship from and artificially raising the prices for anything else.

And now they still make it through, but the customs get paid additional money (which is the only real motivation behind the change).

Ja stimmt, war pro Minute, nicht pro Volumen.

Die späten 90er haben angerufen und wollen ihre Internetbepreisung zurück.

Norway walks into the room.

The desired outcome is for the government and commercial importers to earn more money.

Wonderful, gotta love making individual imports of things literally not available in the EU more expensive for no reason while mass commercial imports of Chinese products benefit once again.

/s?

Yeah, let’s worsen the situation of Ukraine so some trillionaire earns a tiny bit less money!

Additional context: Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt and Niedersachsen are three completely different states.

Here’s one (was too large to upload it to Lemmy). I could keep scrolling, but you probably get the picture.

Not only in Europe, when you look at the tweets of the White House from today, you basically don’t see any MAGA replies under them and almost exclusively criticism which is genuinely insane compared to the situation a week ago.

Either Slava Ukraini or Glory to Ukraine, this mishmash doesn’t make much sense.

Mainly gas power plants getting more expensive due to the Iran war. The price is determined by the last power plant needed to fulfill demand, which usually is a gas power plant.

Better not tell Kathi about this.