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A few days ago, Donald Trump threatened Europeans with new tariffs on cars. This time around, will the EU show some teeth?

A few days ago, Donald Trump threatened Europeans with new tariffs on cars. This time around, will the EU show some teeth?

The EU Commission insists that Donald Trump’s latest threat of 25-percent tariffs on EU car exports ‘changes nothing’. But is a US trade deal viable when the president changes his mind on a daily basis?

Despite its insistence that it supports ‘rules-based trade’, the EU has accepted president Donald Trump’s tariffs. And its own trade agenda is more complicated than just free trade.

EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič told MEPs that he had received assurances from Donald Trump’s officials in Washington that the EU-US agreement brokered last summer remained in place

MEPs have scrapped plans to vote on the EU-US trade deal on Tuesday, amid the ‘chaos’ of the new Donald Trump trade tariffs unilaterally announced at the weekend following a Supreme Court defeat.

With Friday’s Supreme Court verdict Donald Trump is off balance and on the defensive. The moment is opportune to stand up to his bullying tactics. He has not looked this vulnerable since he was reeling from the market reactions to his initial Liberation Day tariffs.

“We must set clear boundaries and be ready to freeze negotiations or the application,” said S&D trade committee chair Bernd Lange

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