“The greatest agreement ever signed.” Donald Trump had fun comments on the agreement found between the EU and the United States on customs duties this Sunday, July 27.
This consensus provides in particular the customs tasks of 15% in European exports to the United States, against 10% before. An announcement that has not received such a unanimous welcome in Europe.
A “capitulation” for the rebels
The deputies of France rebelled and, according to Manuel Bompard and Éric Coquerel, denounced in particular a “shame agreement” when the Eurodiputa Antonhy Smith deplores a “capitulation”, regretting in particular the purchase of American energy linked to the agreement.
The same observation for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who estimated that “everything was sold to Trump.” “Customs rights, the obligation to buy, 5% taxes on GDP: liberalism, free and non -distorted competition and other rules of the Lisbon treaty are a joke,” he denounced, by creating “the choice of rebellion in the empire and non -alignment.”
An “unequal” agreement, the energy contract denounced
For Dominique de Vilepin, this treaty is “unequal”, comparing it with a “tribute.” The former prime minister wonders: “An investment agreement of $ 600 billion with a single side, but which will cost how many jobs to Europe?”
It also points out the “forced sale of $ 750 billion in energy” and its impact on the “sovereignty of European energy”.
At a conference on the presentation of the Customs Agreement, Donald Trump explained that the EU is dedicated to $ 750 billion in energy purchases and 600 billion additional investments in the United States. All the details of the agreement are not yet known exactly and must be validated by the EU member states.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who spoke of a “good agreement,” said the two economic powers have decided to raise all their customs duties in some of its products, including aeronautics.
Le Pen denounces “asymmetric clauses”
The deputy (RN) Marine Le Pen also attacked a “political, economic and moral fiasco”, in a press release published in X.
The extreme right chosen emphasizes that the European Union “obtained less good conditions than the United Kingdom” and deplora “asymmetric clauses that France would never have accepted.”
Rome and Berlin expect details
“We were able to preserve our fundamental interests,” said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The latter believes that it makes possible “to avoid unnecessary escalation in transatlantic commercial relations.”
The head of Italian diplomacy, Antonio Tajani, believes that “the agreement between the EU and the United States ends a phase of uncertainty and avoids a commercial war.”
In the same way that the former Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna, who simply commented on X “to clarify, therefore,” Antonio Tajani was tempered by ensuring that he wanted to examine “all the details.”
“I consider positive that there is an agreement, but as long as I do not see the details, I cannot formulate a better judgment,” completed the head of the Giorgia Meloni government, during a visit to Ethiopia.
“I don’t know if we talk about an agreement. It is simply the will of the president of the United States to impose his vision worldwide,” said Thierry Breton, on the BFMTV set.
Source: BFM TV
