"It costs $12.99 a month or $100 a year in the US, or €12 a month or €90 a year in Europe"
I would subscribe just for the outlandish concept of not ripping off Europeans.
As I see it, France may benefit from its trade with the US because it has a global trade deficit so the extra dollars from America can be used to buy, say, oil from the Gulf.
But for Germany and for EU as a whole (or China etc), the surplus dollars will probably never be used to buy anything useful so these exports look like a tribute offered to US.
