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
No, Finnish
By the way, why are Danish politicians so fucking eager to have an AI scan all of my files and messages, what's up with that?
No idea, its not popular here either. My main theory is that the socialdemocrats have spent so much time working with the Americans they've become like the US democrats and just believe they're completely insulated from popular opinion for one reason or another.
The European neolib might be the most detestable type of politician on the planet. It's the smarmy, holier than thou attitude and how fucking bloodless and charismaless they are. Absolute scolding schoolmarms
At least fascists tend to be ridiculous cartoon characters that are fun to hate
Denmark is so cucked man, I hate it. Put anyone in a suit and have them say something in a serious tone and everyone just believes it.
The current editor-in-chief of the national broadcaster used to be a member of Socialdemokratiet, but if I talk about propaganda im the one that's crazy.
We're being ruled by the most mediocre middle-management types in existence. It's wild.
Don't worry, you can just become a politician and be exempt, they need their privacy for national security reasons of course. And even if you get caught with 6000 images and 2500 video clips of CSAM you can just claim it's for research and get a few short months in jail.