Before it was said that the US come from Mars and the Europeans Venus. The God of War in front of love. With Trump in command in the White Houseat first glance, Any psychologist just out of the faculty could confirm this diagnosis.
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Every time the American announces new tariffs that affect the EUwhile despotrica of her at the same time, Community authorities always respond with hot cloths. The phrases are always the same: that you have to see first exactly what tariffs it is, that there will be an answer but that we have to consult it with the Member States, that all this is bad not only for Europeans but also for the US …
In community capitals they continue to think that the best tactic to deal with Trump is not to cause it. That the most effective is a diplomatic and mesurated reaction, almost shy, such as the one that has been repeated after Wednesday, at the last minute, the US President has announced 25 percent tariffs on cars as well as key parts for its manufacture imported from other countries, a measure that will enter into force on April 2.
At the moment, Trump does not seem impressed by the meliflua European response because The language has not bitten threatening the European Union and Canada a few hours with imposing “much older” tariffs that those announced so far before the possibility of collaborating with each other “to economically harm” their country. “Both tariffs will be imposed on a large scale, much greater than those currently planned, to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!”, He said on his social truth platform.
The Canadian Prime Minister has reacted more than the community authorities criticizing the decision for being a “direct attack” to the workers and calling the United Canadian Relations Cabinet.
However, here, in Brussels, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has been limited to a publishing on social networks a statement “deeply” Trump’s decision Adding the expected announcement that the answer will be evaluated, in reference to reciprocal tariffs.
This morning, asked by the journalists her executive vice president, the Spanish Teresa Ribera, has told us the same thing: that before answering the community executive she will analyze what tariffs it is. “We need to see how they are accurately formulating what they want to do and make sure we will respond accordingly” adding that the EU “will continue to seek negotiated solutions.”
It is as if on this side of the Atlantic I was afraid to anger Trump although this does not stop accumulating displays and contempt for their theoretical partners and allies. The European Commissioner for Commerce, Maros Sefcovic, have finally received it in Washinghton a couple of times with the only tangible result that … the meeting has occurred. And that is what the EU is grabbed, that the door of the dialogue remains open, and therefore, perhaps it is worth delaying the European response as much as possible.
A month waiting
It is the same that happened when a month ago, Trump signed that executive order that imposed a 25% tariff on imports of steel, aluminum and related derived productswhich affected EU exports worth about 26,000 million euros. The European response has not yet arrived.
The countermeasures are still prepared worth up to 26,000 million euros. The first batch of 8000 million was at first scheduled for April 1 but was immediately delayed, as if in Brussels they thought they had been too daring in their response. Again prudence and containment. We are told that it is because the list of products with the member states is being consulted with a scalpel in hand with the member states so as not to do more damage than necessary.
Right now it is assumed that European tariffs would go into force together on April 13, when we trust Trump’s vocalizations, the commercial war will explode, because he says he will respond massively. It is his way of speaking. Nobody knows for sure if it will really, thus harming their own economy, or what it seeks is really a pact. The EU prays together for the second, and that can be the best explanation that drags both the feet when dealing with the American giant.
They are two opposite tactics, Venus and Mars, face to face. And nobody says it can say that Venus is wrong in advance.
