🚨🚨 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. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/dona... - ThreadSky

profjacob.bsky.social • 13 hours ago

🚨🚨 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. 🧵
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-tariffs-eu-trade-anti-coercion-instrument/

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profjacob.bsky.social•13 hours ago

“We have an Anti-Coercion Instrument, and we will have to use it,” Agriculture Commissioner @christophehansen.bsky.social said in Paris after meeting with his FR counterpart Annie Genevard at the Salon de l’Agriculture farming exhibition. Designed following the first Trump administration from 2017

profjacob.bsky.social•13 hours ago

to 2021, the bloc's “trade bazooka” provides for broad retaliation in response to trade discrimination, such as quotas & tariffs/restrictions on foreign investment. The commissioner’s comments came after Trump threatened to hit the EU with sweeping 25-percent tariffs "on cars and all other things,"

profjacob.bsky.social•13 hours ago

provoking fury across the Atlantic with politicians saying the time had come for Brussels to retaliate. “We will not let ourselves be bullied, not with tariffs nor with threats about our legislation,” said Bernd Lange a usually mild-mannered German Social Democrat who chairs the EP’s int trade

llamalady.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Watching the Zelensky roasting, tells you all you need to know about the Trump administration.

profjacob.bsky.social•13 hours ago

committee. Trump’s broadside was a distillation of the trade grievances he had aired on the campaign trail & that he has stepped up since taking office a month ago. He again complained that Europe didn’t buy US cars or food & lamented US' huge transatlantic trade deficit, which he pegged at a

profjacob.bsky.social•13 hours ago

vastly exaggerated $300 billion. Although the US supported a united Europe after WW II within a strategic plan to create a democratic bulwark against the Soviet Union, Trump offered a different account: “The Union was formed in order to screw the United States,” he said. “That’s the purpose of it.

profjacob.bsky.social•13 hours ago

They have done a good job of it, but now I am president.” "The "EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone," retorted Polish PM @donald-tusk.bsky.social in a post on X. "Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to

julie1176.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Why would anyone want the USs food?

mariap011.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Rightly so. I’m so sorry the U.S. created this monster.

sunnieskye.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Wait til they’ve digested how rude and disgusting trump et. al. were to President Zelenskyy.
That should tie the bow very nicely against America.

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