The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on the EU to “defend European interests resolutely” after Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on nearly all imports from the EU.
It came as the EU moved to de-escalate tensions after the blunt move by Trump on Saturday. The bloc declared a further pause on €21bn of retaliatory tariffs until 1 August, dovetailing with the US president’s new deal deadline.
At the same time, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, announced a “political agreement” on a free trade deal on Sunday, ending nine years of negotiations.
he’s gonna quit nato then? or does he mean to defend european interests resolutely while being a full part of the organization that calls trump ‘daddy’?
well, let’s see how that works out for him and europe
What would be the chance that fighting tariffs hitting BigTech would kickstart a tech market in Europe?
