[homosaur]

Even without looking at the ethics of all this, you're exactly right. At the most basic level, why do governments do things that are against the national interest in favor of multinational corporations or other countries?

I think the answer probably has to do with who is picking up the tab. Politicians are owned, even more so the higher level you get.

[Nursie]

I'm not sure it's so simple, but there's definitely something wrong. You wonder if they live in a little echo-chamber that only lobbyists have access to.

In terms of laws that impact trade I think they absolutely do need to consider whether new data laws will make trade with the US (or other entity) difficult, because it could negatively affect both sides. However they shouldn't always shy away from it when it's the right thing to do.

[homosaur]

Yes, they definitely do live in an echo chamber which is why their views are so skewed, but they also live in the world of globalist weasels who love this crap. Most of the people who would participate in a body as anti-democratic as the EU are not dependent on their own nations to succeed to make their checkbooks fat. They, like say, AlGore and Soros and these creeps, are mostly tied to economic interests outside of their own nations and could honestly care less whether or not their own nations sink or swim. Do I care whether the company across the street goes belly up?

Now you can go crazy down the conspiracy road here and think those people are somehow in a cabal, but I think it's far more simple than that. They are just more reliant on groups outside their countries for their personal success.