Heads of State and Government of the European Union They gathered to treat the future of the relationship that the old continent will have with the United States With the new mandate of Donald Trump, and the road map to follow with respect to the tariffs that the American president wants to impose on Europe.
The meeting, which took place in Egmont in Brussels, had as its main topic of conversation to the United States and Donald Trump. More after the Republican president threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Europe. The leaders of the Old Continent countries They highlighted the good relations that existed between the United States and Europe, And they showed the need to maintain them, both in the field of defense and in the economic one: “The roots are deep and will last in time”besides, “When problems arise are solutions” They said privately some of the leaders when asked about what the tariffs would mean to European products.
Europe acknowledged that if those rates were imposed on their products, they would respond with the same hardness. Although European leaders also do not hide the commercial need that both regions have: “We are very interconnected. We need the United States and the United States needs us too. Tariffs increase costs. They are not good for jobs and neither for customers, “said the high EU representative for foreign affairs and security, Kaja Kallas.
The German Foreign Minister, Olaf Scholz, also said that if the rates were applied, Europe would answer: “It is clear that as the strongest economic space, we can design our own issues and We can also react with tariff measures to tariff measures. We must do this and we will do it, But the goal must be that there is cooperation. “
Spain, along the same line as Europe
Spain will follow the guidelines of the rest of European countries if US tariffs are finally imposed. To this has referred precisely the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Carlos Planas, who has confirmed the idea exposed, among others, by Foreign Minister Scholz: “European will make the decisions that are appropriate to a commercial conflict”said the minister of tariffs raised by the president of the United States. “If there were them, we have rules, principles and instruments. We will have to make decisions, but we do not anticipate anything,” he said.
Planas has also highlighted the great relationship that Spain has with the United States, and has opted “to maintain it”, something that from the government wants to continue. In relation to tariffs, the minister says that “They are always bad”especially in the primary sector for directly affecting the salary of thousands of families.
