Between ‘rollover UK’ and ‘retaliatory China’: will EU hardball secure trade deal with US? - short news
Optimism is growing in Brussels, but high-risk strategy has only weeks to play out before pause in tariff threat ends
In Brussels’ corridors of power, quiet optimism is growing that the EU’s hardball strategy to secure a US trade deal is working. While Britain quickly moved to try to cushion the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs with a deal agreed last month – and US-Chinese relations are a tit-for-tat situation – the EU has taken a different stance. “We are positioning..
source: The Guardian - 06.06.2025