Europa pronto a rendere Trump un’offerta di € 50 miliardi, afferma il negoziatore dell’UE

“Brussels wants to increase purchases of US goods by €50bn to address the “problem” in the trade relationship, the EU’s top negotiator has said, adding that the bloc is making “certain progress” towards striking a deal.

But Maroš Šefčovič, the EU’s trade commissioner, suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that the bloc would not accept Washington keeping in place 10 per cent tariffs on its goods as a fair resolution to trade talks.

Steep tariffs are due to be imposed on the EU and multiple countries in early July, leaving the bloc racing to avoid a full-blown transatlantic trade war.

The US and EU had made progress through multiple rounds of in-person and telephone negotiations since President Donald Trump imposed, then paused, 20 per cent tariffs on the bloc, Sefcovic said. He added that “his ambition” was still to strike a “balanced and fair” deal with the White House.

Šefčovič said the key argument he was making to US trade representative Jamieson Greer and commerce secretary Howard Lutnick was taking account of American services exports to the EU, which would bring the overall trade deficit with Europe to only about €50bn.

That could be closed rapidly with deals to purchase more US gas and agricultural products, he said.” – Financial Times

EU has basically two abilities:
Trying to show everyone we have no abillities and be submissive on fetish level.

We’ll never learn, huh? Time and time again we’ll keep sucking up to people whose only goal is to destroy us, so we can then SurprisePikachu.jpg when they fuck us over again.

I’m coping but it could be more energy purchase if Trump digs in to help Ukraine? If so, then that’s not too bad right?  

I never thought I’d prefer Chinas handling on this. Grow some balls EU.

Why are we even considering giving concessions to that tyrant? He isn’t a reliable ally and like every bully this will just embolden him next time he tries to strongarm the world

Follow Canada’s elbows up approach, or China’s silent treatment. Only then, will you get anything worth something from Trump

All that translates to: „Hey, putin we are weak and can’t even stand strong and together when it comes to US tariffs. We would be very sad if you invade us, but would eventually just implode.“

You spineless cowards.

The US being the biggest consumer economy on the planet makes a trade deficit completely natural.

If you take digital goods and services into account, our trade deficit with them shrinks to only $50b. There’s absolutely no need to bring that down to zero. It’s already negligible in the grand scale of things.

So we are basically about to give them money for the privilege of being allowed to sell stuff to them. STUFF THAT THEY WANT AND HAVE A DEMAND FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE!

If the US wants to reduce the trade deficit, they can start making products Europeans actually want to buy instead of forcing us into buying crap we don’t want or need.

**ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC**

Why are people worried about this looking like the EU is weak? Do those people actually want to be poorer? Because that’s what a trade war makes people. 50bn here represents a headline for trump to use to climb down with. The EU is just handling an ego maniac in a position of power.et him have his headline. If the dimwits in the USA fall for it so what? It’s not like they could lose any more of our respect. What’s the harm if we get to benefit from a deal that helps our companies sell things in the USA?

We need energy that isn’t Russian and we need to stop handing russia money for it. The u.s. has energy that isn’t Russian. It’s perfect for us and good for them.

This could end up being the makings of a deal. We want the EU to make deals that keep our living standards high. €50bn to fuck Russia and solve trump while providing energy security?? That’s a good deal.

Let’s live comfortably while the USA and China have their trade war. We don’t really want to be in one ourselves.

If Europe makes a trade deal with the USA. Before you ratify CETA. It’s like stabbing Canada in the back.

“Provisional Application: CETA has been provisionally applied since September 2017, meaning most of the agreement’s provisions are in effect.
Full Ratification: The agreement will fully take effect once all EU member states have ratified it.”

We signed a trade deal in 2017, and that’s not in full effect yet!

It’s as expected. Europe could unite but would rather argue about fish and suck up to its right wing Nazis in waiting. So much we could do but won’t because our leaders are by and large a bunch of spineless, gutless fucks.

The EU trade commissioner sounds like someone getting sweet-talked by a con artist. Like a grandma with a telephone scammer. He thinks he’s found common ground with Washington, like this is a normal negotiation between equals. But there is no mutual understanding, only a shakedown. Trump and his cronies don’t care about fair deals or shared interests. Their playbook is simple: Demand money, shift the goalposts, repeat.

And now this commissioner is apparently ready to recommend coughing up €50 billion, thinking it’ll buy goodwill. Has he learned nothing? This isn’t the post-war US acting as a stabilizing force. It’s a transactional circus run by people who see diplomacy as a zero-sum hustle.

How is it possible that someone in his position still doesn’t grasp that? Was he asleep the past eight years?

We reached a point where headlines do not even need to make ANY sense, whatsoever.

> Europe ready to make Trump a €50bn offer, says EU negotiator

Europe is not the EU. The EU cannot cannot and won’t command the actors which actually, very potentially, would be buying the things mentioned. It’s a total nonsense.

Europe is capitulating already? 😑

Hopefully this is just some semi random ding dong talking out their ass and we, as a whole, have more backbone than this.

Why are we so weak? Fuck that orange lunatic.

You mean like transferring €50 bn to the Cayman Islands in exchange for him f- off? That would be smarter and cheaper; it should work for Orbán too.

No don’t be stupid mobsters come back for more and more. No deals with big tech Nazis in the uk.

Trump is looking for a couple of trillion, so that’s a pretty lowball first offer

Why are European politicians such pussies?

Totally expected. EU has always been weak and leaderless. After, EU is not a united country but a loose alliance at best.

Pathetic response from the EU who would have thought…