Ajabajafingret; vad mera kan EU göra mot USA tullar
The EU is planning, belatedly, to bear more of the defense burden itself, but filling the gap that the US is threatening to create will take years, if not decades.
And this touches on a deeper problem: The EU is politically weak. Its members are divided on just about everything — including how to deal with Trump.
The European Commission’s outline of retaliatory tariffs will be contested. Members disagree on how to strengthen their defenses and how to share the costs, about how to deal with China,
about how much further (if at all) to widen the union and/or pursue economic and political integration.
Domestic political divisions — in France, Germany and Italy — are undermining the wider European project and available for Trump to exploit.
Couldn’t “standing up to Trump” serve as the grand new unifying principle? I doubt it.
So-called concessions that make EU markets more open to US exports are wins for EU consumers.
It’s embarrassing, or should be, that they had to be forced on Europe by a tariff-loving US president
Clive Crook Bloomberg 12 May 2025
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-12/trade-war-the-eu-can-t-fight-trump
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