8 minutes agoMacro: EU to stand in the face of Trump tariff threat
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The EU will stand up if its interests are targeted, Emmanuel Macron said, while the bloc's leaders called for talks in response to Donald Trump's weekend threat to impose punitive fees. If our commercial interests, Europe, are attacked as a real power, it will have to be respected and for [...]
“If our trade interests, Europe, are attacked as a real power, it will have to be respected and therefore react to”, the French president said as he arrived for an informal defence meeting with other leaders in Brussels on Monday.
“The elections and recent statements by the administration of the new US president were pushing the EU to be more united and more active in responding to collective security issues”, he said, the euronews report.
The American president reiterated past complaints about the size of the US trade deficit with the bloc and demanded that Europe import more American vehicles and agricultural products. This will definitely happen with the EU”, he said.
Trump added that although there was no specific timetable for European tariffs, it is something that will happen very soon.
