The EU’s response to Donald Trump’s tariffs seems to work
The world’s biggest trade bloc takes its time and uses its weight
“SHE SCOLDED me for half an hour, saying I was a complete idiot,” quipped Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, on March 31st. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, had just called to chastise him for speaking bilaterally with the Trump administration about tariffs. He had violated the first rule of the European Union’s trade-fight club: you, national leader, do not talk about trade. The EU speaks with one voice.
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