“What are we winning? We don’t win anything.” Thierry Breton used a very bitter tone this Tuesday, July 29. RTL guest, the former European commissioner denounced the “suffered” agreement on customs duties, concluded between the European Union (EU) and the United States.
Remembering that Europe is “the second market in the world after the United States,” Thierry Breton mainly asked the commission to “learn lessons.”
“And it is imperative that we can have learned the lessons. How could we arrive after 120 days? And then, above all, we have to indicate extremely clearly, which is possible and what it is not,” he insisted.
“We do not need to ask permission”
Beyond the customs tasks of 15% that will be imposed on European products exported to the United States, the former European commission Dragnes very badly the counterparts that the EU must undertake respect.
The agreement in fact provides purchases of US hydrocarbons (natural gas and oil) and nuclear fuels for a value of $ 750 billion for three years, or 250 billion per year. For the EU, this will replace Russian gas imports and avoid the funded war launched by the Kremlin in Ukraine.
It also includes new European investments in the United States for an amount of $ 600 billion. The US president spoke of “hundreds of billions of dollars” of European armaments.
Fearing a new “phase of uncertainty” with the technical negotiations that will be held in the coming weeks, the former European commissioner asks the European Commission to remain firm: “Once again, we do not need to ask permission. We remember that we will have to give, these are the additional commitments we have next to and there, I fear it is very difficult,” warns.
Source: BFM TV
