The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said the EU will respond with “firm and proportional countermeasures” to the 25 % tariff steel and aluminum.
“The unjustified tariffs applied to the EU will not remain unanswered: they will trigger firm and proportionate countermeasures. The EU will act to safeguard their economic interests. We will protect our workers, companies and consumers,” said von der Leyen in a message on the social network X .
The German will meet on Tuesday in Paris with the United States vice president, JD Vance, within the framework of a world summit on artificial intelligence. “Today and tomorrow, President von der Leyen is in Paris, France, to participate in the Summit on Artificial Intelligence. Always in Paris, tomorrow, the president will meet with the US Vice President James James David Vance,” he announced This Monday the spokesman of the European Commission Stefan of Keersmaecker.
The meeting will be the highest level between the European Commission and the new US administration since the return of Donald Trump to the White House and is expected to know the first positions on tariffs on both sides of the Atlantic.
The European Commission already said Monday that it considers that this measure would be “illegal and economically counterproductive”, although Brussels did not want to detail an answer until the “threat” of rates or becomes a formal reality.
