Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU
by Panoramix on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:09PM
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I think you are confused. The quotas (which are EU-wide) are there to protect farmers. By limiting the production there is no surplus (there used to be extraordinary surpluses) and therefore the prices are guaranteed not to drop or fluctuate too much. This also prevents monopolies from dominating the market. Particularly benefited are Italians, who would have a hard time competing against milk powerhouses in Germany.
As for cars, they are decidedly different products than food.
i.e. why do Italians have milk quotas, spain has orange quotas, but germany has not car quotas? the general feeling is that few are getting the advantages of the free market and many are taking the piss.
on the other hand where's the democracy in the Dublin III agrement? 15 or so states voted to screw the three southern states, of course those kind of provisions gets passed, the majority gets an advantage, but the minority of states having to bear the weight will breed resentement for years to come. and to add insult to perjury now that migrants have forced their way to the other countries they want to renegotiate migrant quotas
this is not the europe that was sold on us, and if it were to be an italeave I'd vote yes in a heartbeat