that initially knocked down a good part of the tariffs applied by Donald Trump, including the falsely called “reciprocal tariffs”, was well received in the EU, which saw their arguments reinforced against the protectionist measures, which have always been tildos of “illegal”. Europe, however, remains expectation, more if it is possible after being achieved by the lawyers of the Trump administration. The turn reaffirms Brussels and the EU member states in their prudence strategy, which has received some criticisms due to lack of belligerence. “We want our commercial alliance with the United States to be stronger again. We will always work for it,” proclaimed the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, collecting the Charlemagne Prize on Thursday in Aquothers (Germany).
The German did not make direct allusions to the sentence, which had already been appealed by Washington when she gave her speech. Yes, the Spanish Economy and Commerce Minister Carlos did, Carlos Body: “The decision of the American courts is important because it affects these generalized tariffs, that 10% that we should not forget that it does not have to be the starting point of the negotiation. The starting point has to be the situation prior to the imposition of these tariffs,” he said in Istanbul before an appeal court caught the application of the sentence.
It remembered body that the ruling of the Trade Court does not affect all the massive tariffs decreed by Trump. “View the market reaction, positive reaction to the possible decrease in these tariffs, our argument is confirmed from the EU that tariffs are not good for anyone,” he added.
The Irish Economy Minister Micheál Martin, who described the first sentence as “one more chapter” was also pronounced. “Europe and the US need to sit down to negotiate,” he said from Dublin. The EU is reaffirmed in its negotiating commitment, the vision that has consistently maintained in front of each new and surprising turn to the other side of the Atlantic.
The previous episode of this commercial war ended with a call last Sunday between Trump and von der Leyen in which the first agreed to raise the threat of imposing tariffs of 50% to the EU if it was ceded in the negotiations. The next day, the negotiating chiefs of both parties, Maros Sefcovic, European Commissioner of Commerce, and Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce ,.
And that seems that Brussels will continue to be. A diplomatic source of one of the countries with the greatest weight in the EU believed after the first failure that was reinforced this position.
Von der Leyen wanted to underline that negotiating strategy, but also to diversify commercial exchanges. “We know that 87% of world trade is done with other countries that seek stability and opportunities. And Europe can offer them. That is why there is so much interest in choosing Europe,” he said.
Von der Leyen stressed that the EU needs a “master plan” that reinforces its competitiveness and industrial capacity, and that it makes the old more “attractive” continent for investors “from India to Indonesia, from South America to South Korea, from Canada to New Zealand.”
To deploy that plan, which Von der led in his speech in Aquistgrán, he received the support of the, to whom one of the two corresponded praisatios prior to the award ceremony. The other corresponded to the King of Spain, Felipe VI. “Henry Kissinger would not have to ask who he has to talk to when he wants to talk to Europe. He would call Ursula von der Leyen as the strong representative of a strong Europe,” said Merz. Both are from the same political family, the conservative CDU-CSU. “We are currently living it in the tariff negotiations that you are directing with the USA, but also with China, on behalf of all of us,” he added.
Felipe VI, who opened the ceremony at the Aquison City Council, defended an answer that is based on the reinforcement of the single market and a “deepening” of the Economic Union of the Twenty -seven.
