tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post2677992739876040161..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: Going global: Germany is slowly shifting its trade away from the EU (or why German growth alone cannot save the eurozone periphery)OEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-65903742101945242762013-05-16T16:03:30.105+01:002013-05-16T16:03:30.105+01:00Congratulations, Rollo, on your company's suce...Congratulations, Rollo, on your company's sucess. Obviously Britain's membership of the EU is not stopping you from selling to non-EU markets.<br /><br />There are other successful British firms, big and small. But it doesn't alter the fact that overall Germany is better at exporting than we are. So it makes sense to ask why. Whatever the reason, it's nothing to do with the EU as we're both sublect to the same EU rules.crapshooternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-88831843147293141772013-05-14T12:10:47.631+01:002013-05-14T12:10:47.631+01:00Dear Crapshooter, my company exports 80% of our pr...Dear Crapshooter, my company exports 80% of our product. Virtually none to the EU. Almost all to the real world. We compete with Germans with no problem. We compete with Chinese, and have just built an aircraft hangar in Ulan Batoor. We do not need a lesson on skills, management, planning and investment thank you.<br />RolloRollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18255460090580758354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-87605729002106185152013-05-13T12:15:35.787+01:002013-05-13T12:15:35.787+01:00If Germany is "proving incredibly successful ...If Germany is "proving incredibly successful in cultivating trade with countries outside the EU", then the European regulatory environment can't be "stifling". Perhaps the reason for Germany's success at exporting, and Britain's relative failure, has less to do with regulation and more with factors such as a skilled workforce, capacity for innovation, competent management and long-term planning and investment. Why doesn't Open Europe ever address these issues? Making the EU a scapegoat for failures which are our own responsibility is just a cop-out crapshooternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-12133398183470959592013-05-13T11:37:33.212+01:002013-05-13T11:37:33.212+01:00Of course Germany will change its trade patterns f...Of course Germany will change its trade patterns from Europe to elsewhere. They have sucked Europe dry, and the other European nations' economies have been destroyed. They can less and less afford German goods, and cannot make anything they can sell in Germany. They will be forced to look elsewhere. And so should we. As Churchill said, if we ever have to choose between Europe and the Deep Blue Sea, we must always choose the Sea.Rollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18255460090580758354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-81777109106520750692013-05-11T10:45:42.009+01:002013-05-11T10:45:42.009+01:00Seen the size of the market per country imho it sh...Seen the size of the market per country imho it should be looked at from country to country (at least as well as looking at it as a block, or in another way even 2 blocks).<br /> Basically The South EZ can be given up as far as growth is concerned. The North will suffer from that (and take a hit in potential growth), but will likely survive. So within the EZ more focus on the North.<br /> Growth in the EU will probably be mainly Eastern (after that Northern) and the less related with the EZ the better.<br /><br /> It will be nearly impossible to go without Europe. Everywhere on the world it shows that successful international trade will for a large part be with neighbours (whther you like them or not). Good to put the stress somewhere else, but Europe will remain under any realistic scenario the no 1 trading region (and by far).<br /><br /> UK should focuss more for Europe on services and modern business like IPRs. And not about hamsters, wisents and wolfs and agriculture. Another big structural mistake the UK has made the last decades. They simply didnot have the priorities right in that respect as well (as well as on democracy). Riknoreply@blogger.com