“My impression was that Trump has accepted it now that he can negotiate with us only together,” said the leaders of European institutions, the President of the European Parliament President, and President of the European Parliament Robert Metsol.
Merz visited Paris and Warsaw immediately after taking office, and he spoke to the US President Trump again yesterday. Trump borrowed so far to meet with the leaders of European institutions, giving it to the knowledge that they were not his interlocutors than Member States leaders and that the European Union was created to screw America.
It seems to be changed now. Yesterday, journalists said that Ursula von der Leyen is fantastic. “She’s so fantastic, I hope we meet,” Trump said.
“Generally, I love compliments,” she said through Laughter Von Der Leyen at a joint press conference answered the question of Trump’s statement commented.
She added that it is now working on issues of trading policies, ie American customs in the import of goods from Europe. It reiterated that it occupies zero customs rates for all industrial products.
“I had a good phone conversation with President Trump, as well as at the funeral of Pope Franje. If I go to the White House, to have a concrete package we can talk about and that’s what we’re working on now,” Von Der Leyen said.
Merz said that it fully agrees that the EU should perform unique in the trafficking talks. “We all have to sing the same song,” he says, adding that when he went to Washington on a meeting with Trump consulted with the Commission.
“We are ready to abolish customs in industrial products, we work intensively on the customs issue, fairly and for both parties useful. But we are ready to act, so they are preparing the countermeasures,” Von der Leyen said.
Merz said that he should not be able to hire a trading dispute with America, to best reduce customs to zero for all products, but that it is equally important to admit technological standards that can also be an obstacle to trade.
The key topics discussed with the leaders of European institutions were the competitiveness of the economy, the deepening of the unique market and the establishment of the Ukraine market, energy, defense and support of Ukraine and migration. Merz said that he did not exclude the EU’s joint borrowing to strengthen the defense when there was no extraordinary circumstances, but did not specify that Europe is now in such circumstances.
“We had an emergency with the coronavirus pandemia, and now we face a new major challenge, by establishing or reinstating the Union’s defense abilities,” Merz said.
He said he did not want to prejudge a discussion within his government and within the EU on various defense financing options.
He warned of growing debts around the world, not only in Europe. “I wonder wherever it will be possible not only to refinance debt, but fund interest. We cannot borrow indefinitely,” he said.
Speaking about Ukraine, the German Chancellor said he firmly stands with the attacked country, to do everything that the war ends as soon as possible and that it can only be done if Ukraine is involved.
“I’m glad to support all in the European Union, with perhaps one or two exceptions.
I talked to the American president yesterday who informed me about my 30-day breakfire and supported the idea, “said Russia, saying the EU talks in the opposite EU accession to Moscow.
(Vijesti.ba)
