Survey shows between 56% and 79% across seven countries in favour if Trump introduces ‘Liberation Day’ levies

The article title is a bit of a misnomer because apparently they only surveyed western Europeans rather than people across Europe. But still it’s interesting.

These survey results appear in the article:

A graph showing the percentages of people in seven European countries who support retaliatory tariffs against the USA. 79% of people in Denmark either support or fully support such tariffs. The other countries listed are Sweden, Spain, France, the UK, Germany, and Italy. Italy has the lowest level of combined support and strong support, at 56%. More details can be seen at the article that this post links to.

  • venotic@kbin.melroy.org
    16·
    2 days ago

    As long as they hit the red states. You know, the ones that by sheer volume, supported the moron that started the tariffs.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      21·
      2 days ago

      The EU has historically been quite targeted when counter-tariffing America. A couple of quotes from this Guardian article:

      These tariffs, which target notable US goods worth €4.5bn, often from Republican states, will snap back on 1 April.

      And

      “We try to hit … where it hurts,” said a senior EU official, who said the bloc was targeting soya beans, which are grown in Louisiana, the state of the US speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. “We love soybeans, but we’re happy to buy them from Brazil or from Argentina or from anywhere else.”

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      3·
      2 days ago

      Hitting the red states feels good, but it won’t help much because they’ll just lap up whatever Trump tells them. If anything tariffing the blue states will result in more action by lighting a fire under the asses of the sane two thirds of America.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah so like I said, it feels good but it doesn’t have much strategic value. Might as well tarrif the whole thing and hope something comes out of it.