World News

668 readers

744 users here now

Rules:

Be a decent person
No spam
Add the byline, or write a line or two in the body about the article.

Other communities of interest:

[email protected]

founded 4 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

119

EU to Trump on tariffs: Go ahead, make our day. (www.politico.eu)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

BRUSSELS — The European Union said on Thursday it was ready to deploy its strongest trade weapon against the U.S. after President Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs and scorned the EU as having been created to “screw” America.

“We have an Anti-Coercion Instrument, and we will have to use it,” Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen said in Paris after meeting with his French counterpart Annie Genevard at the Salon de l’Agriculture farming exhibition.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Sigh... something in the pessimistic corner of my mind tells me that we will soon hear the orange man saying that the US needs to bring freedom back to europe...