Those rancid fucking ghouls want to kill Chinese online shopping platforms like AliExpress by introducing a 3€ fee per item starting from July next year. Member nations may also impose their own additional fees on top of that. Apparently, the Dutch get to pay an additional 2€ per package while Romanians pay 5€.
This isn't too bad if you buy more expensive individual items. For example, paying 3€ on top of 25€ would suck but it's still less expensive than trying to get the same thing from the EU. However, if you had a 15€ package consisting of 8 smaller items, you'd have to pay an eye-watering 24€ in fees.
It absolutely infuriates me how fucking smug EU politicians and bureaucrats sound while they boast about this new scheme, like cops who had just done major drug bust or foiled some terror plot. The media also talks about people who shop on AE and Temu like they're fucking crackheads or drunk drivers or something while also admitting that the "worst offenders" are pensioners and single parents, aka the poor. Fuck those people amirite
Most of the stuff I get from AliExpress is lower-priced items so this EU protection racket is gonna suck. EU and corporate mouthpieces like to go on about how cheap Chinese goods are bad for the environment but most of the shit I get is replacement parts and accessories for things I already own that I could not get locally at all, or only at some ludicrous markup. I saw some electronics repairman say that they buy individual components directly from China because otherwise you would have to buy many of them in industrial quantities
Edit: Just look at this fucking shit, dude. My latest purchase contained a couple of Micro USB to USB-C adapters because I have a bunch of older devices and I figured it would be easier to have a couple of adapters instead of finding new Micro USB cables. The adapters cost less than 2€. Look at these prices at local retailers:
See that 2.90€ listing? Yeah, that one has a 6€ shipping fee and I'm pretty sure they're just a middle man for Alibaba products anyway 
Also, as a sidenote, I was commiserating about this and other shit with some real life acquaintances, and we were all in agreement until I brought up how our shitty fucking government is going to gut the welfare state to buy military jets and other weapons from the Yanks, at which point the mood changed completely. "We've got no choice but to defend ourselves from Russia" 
All their anger at the government, the EU and the US completely evaporated in an instant. These people are lefties
This entire stupid continent is 99% Nato-brained and there's like 10 communists. I guess this is better than the time I was accused of being a tankie Russian stooge for disagreeing with the take that Putin's ultimate goal is to conquer Europe for lebensraum for the Russians and he's gonna do it any day now
Wait, there are euros who actually still think Russia did the Nordstream attack?
I work with a lib who had doubts that Russia did the attack but didn't want to entirely dismiss the idea; I had to explain that it would be a gigantic waste when all they have to do it just turn it off on their end without destroying such an expensive project that they pitched in for. I think he still suspects Russia was behind it when there's literally zero gain for Russia.
Euros have to believe that Russia committed the sabotage because it is the only way to preserve their self image as anything other than the lapdogs of the US (very much a superiority complex).
The Andromeda yacht explanation is the one lifeline that eurolibs have that make their lives make sense. They must not think for a second that they have been tricked by people they consider lesser (Americans, Russians, and the Global South).
European liberalism is a endless void of politely smug white supremacy that makes me want to have dinner with elon musk instead.
The one that drives me nuts is Eurolibs acting as if Trump style fascism happened because Americans are just stupid, as if every European country doesn't have a fascist party ready to take power in their country's next election. Eurolibs seem to think that one more round of austerity will make everyone vote for Renaissance/CDU/Labour again.
Or already in government
My favourite euro-ism is people who are appalled by Trump's treatment of immigrants while simultaneously wanting every black person and muslim in Europe to be put into a death camp
Yeah, but have you considered that Russians are Always Chaotic Evil
They just do bad stuff for bad stuff's sake
It's pointless to argue with these people