Comment by ben_w
12 days ago
The companies would choose to operate in the EU if they could.
The US government is throwing its weight around, appeares to be preparing to illegally annex bits of non-EU land in an EU member state, to sow propaganda to fracture the EU itself, and has already sanctioned EU judges for doing their jobs when their job is against US interests.
Non-zero chance they will not have any choice in this. Gut feeling says we're still a long way short of 50:50, but it's just gut feeling.
>has already sanctioned EU judges for doing their jobs when their job is against US interests.
Wow, this is scary. I assume EU would never punish US companies for doing their jobs when their job is against EU interests?
A judge making a ruling to listen to a case, issuing arrest warrants so those cases can proceed (arrest does not mean proven guilty!), is not supposed to be a valid target.
Great, then when American judges rule that Maduro is a valid arrest target, then no one in the EU can complain.
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Why are you comparing US companies to EU judges? To me it seems like private business in the US is much more involved in the legislative than the judicative branch.