this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
125 points (98.4% liked)

Europe

11067 readers
722 users here now

News and information from Europe 🇪🇺

(Current banner: La Mancha, Spain. Feel free to post submissions for banner images.)

Rules (2024-08-30)

  1. This is an English-language community. Comments should be in English. Posts can link to non-English news sources when providing a full-text translation in the post description. Automated translations are fine, as long as they don't overly distort the content.
  2. No links to misinformation or commercial advertising. When you post outdated/historic articles, add the year of publication to the post title. Infographics must include a source and a year of creation; if possible, also provide a link to the source.
  3. Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. Don't post direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments. Don't troll nor incite hatred. Don't look for novel argumentation strategies at Wikipedia's List of fallacies.
  4. No bigotry, sexism, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, dehumanization of minorities, or glorification of National Socialism. We follow German law; don't question the statehood of Israel.
  5. Be the signal, not the noise: Strive to post insightful comments. Add "/s" when you're being sarcastic (and don't use it to break rule no. 3).
  6. If you link to paywalled information, please provide also a link to a freely available archived version. Alternatively, try to find a different source.
  7. Light-hearted content, memes, and posts about your European everyday belong in other communities.
  8. Don't evade bans. If we notice ban evasion, that will result in a permanent ban for all the accounts we can associate with you.
  9. No posts linking to speculative reporting about ongoing events with unclear backgrounds. Please wait at least 12 hours. (E.g., do not post breathless reporting on an ongoing terror attack.)
  10. Always provide context with posts: Don't post uncontextualized images or videos, and don't start discussions without giving some context first.

(This list may get expanded as necessary.)

Posts that link to the following sources will be removed

Unless they're the only sources, please also avoid The Sun, Daily Mail, any "thinktank" type organization, and non-Lemmy social media (incl. Substack). Don't link to Twitter directly, instead use xcancel.com. For Reddit, use old:reddit:com

(Lists may get expanded as necessary.)

Ban lengths, etc.

We will use some leeway to decide whether to remove a comment.

If need be, there are also bans: 3 days for lighter offenses, 7 or 14 days for bigger offenses, and permanent bans for people who don't show any willingness to participate productively. If we think the ban reason is obvious, we may not specifically write to you.

If you want to protest a removal or ban, feel free to write privately to the admin that applied the rule (check modlog first to find who was it.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
federalreverse@feddit.org
poVoq@slrpnk.net
anzo@programming.dev
EuroMod@feddit.org
125
Trump ‘pleased to announce’ 25% hike on EU auto tariffs effective next week (www.independent.co.uk)
submitted 1 day ago by TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.org
42 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

President Donald Trump has announced he plans to increase a tariff on cars and trucks imported from the European Union effective next week, a move that could jolt the world economy at a fragile moment. “I am pleased to announce that, based on the fact the European Union is not complying with our fully agreed to trade deal, next week I will be increasing tariffs charged to the European Union for cars and trucks coming into the United States. The tariff will be increased to 25%,” he wrote Friday. “It is fully understood and agreed that, if they produce cars and trucks in U.S.A. plants, there will be NO TARIFF.” Trump did not elaborate on his specific grievances over the EU and their supposed noncompliance with the trade deal. It comes despite an agreement reached last July between Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which established a 15% tariff on the majority of goods.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For a little while now I've wanted to ask my representatives why there's no sanctions on Trump yet, and if any are planned. These new tariffs certainly show appeasement or defusion doesn't work. All while we're losing much more in terms of international rule of law and the incoming long term impacts.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Write a letter. It need not be long, just a few sentences. The real goal is when staffers compile their reports about what constituents care about this gets on the list, and the larger the number the better.

There are others reasons to write letters. However it is difficult to get your congressman to read and consider a long well written letter - they get so much mail that most of it is handled by staffers. Thus the quick letter with the goal of just getting into the weekly summary of issues is often a good goal, and needs much less effort on your part. If you have the energy to write a long carefully considered letter by all means do - but these are best shared publicly with the goal of getting thousands of people to sign and send a copy (which ensures that it is read because thousands care - but hundreds is not enough to get it past the filter). If you know the congressman personally in some way (including friend of a friend) sometimes you can bypass the process and get things read directly. Townhalls where you can speak for 30 seconds (you should practice and time you 25 second, 55 second, and 2:55 speeches before hand - then depending on the time controls give the correct one - you want to come off as someone who didn't memorize the speech though despite the practice)