It was a blow to the president of the commission of Ursula von der Lein. Mertz is dissatisfied with his friend at the CDU party and gives everyone to know at the top, which ended on Friday evening. Until July 9 – the deadline set by Trump – a deal was required. Dear “fast and dirty”, which is not at all, his motto.
This is a new announcement. When he took office, Mertz called for a comprehensive agreement that reduces all tariffs in transatlantic trade to zero. Now he, apparently, also wants to come to terms with a flat inch by ten percent that he should go quickly.
How such a deal can look in details remained open. You do not even know what has yet agreed, a duckling Lane. The president of the commission objected with an amazing announcement that a new proposal from the United States had just come.
Detailed information about the US sentence is not yet known
However, what was in it did not know. Neither Lane nor the President of the EU Council Antonio Costa wanted to talk with the press about the content. “We are ready for an agreement,” said von der Lein Knapp and added: “All options remain on the table.”
It also includes countertiffers for American products in the amount of 95 billion euros. Mertz expressed support for this course. “If there is no tariff agreement, the EU is ready and able to take appropriate measures,” he said.
Then the second surprise came: the Chancellor announced that in Brussels you would think about the alternatives of the World WTO World Trade Organization. Initially, it was the idea of Leyens, but he already talked about this with France President Emmanuel Macron.
Here, too, Merz and Lane were guilty of details. We are talking about the “new type of trading organization”, which can gradually replace “something that we no longer have with the WTO today,” the Chancellor said. First of all, the settlement of the dispute no longer works.
The United States is to blame. During his first period, Trump distanced herself from the WTO and paralyzed arbitration dishes by non -ec frament. Since then, almost nothing was possible. However, it is also unclear how WTO 2.0 should work without Americans.
The proposal remains in approximate resolutions, were not accepted. This also applies to most other topics: it is rarely as tangible results as in the first EU Summit. But he was welcomed “extremely friendly”, the CDU boss was pleased.
Given many disputes, conflicts and wars, there is already something.
