Trump’s tariff threat is now being controlled at secret bunker meetings

A well -known European and United States of thought, the Atlantic Council member, Frances G. Burwell On Friday, you listed ways to how the EU should work with Trump.

Burwell said at the European Police Center event that Trump and his administration “believe and want to believe that the EU is weak”.

That is why Burwell’s advice to Europe is that if the EU wants to respect Trump, then “the EU must appear to be economically strong and competitive and confident and uniform.”

Burwell’s doctrines came to mind as I listened to EU leaders’ policies to Trump’s tariff threat on Monday in Brussels.

EU decision-makers were like directly from an American expert textbook.

“If the commercial interests of Europe are attacked, we must make ourselves worthy of respect,” said the French President Emmanuel Macron.

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (Kok) emphasized Europe’s “strong self -esteem and good self -confidence in the tariff negotiations.

EU leaders assured the Union that the Union is a strong economic area that is necessary if necessary if Trump fulfills his threat.

“As a strong economic area, we are able to influence our affairs and respond to customs policy with customs policy,” the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz quoth.

“We need to make it clear to the United States that if duties come in, we will take retaliation,” Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden chuckle.

The unity of the EU was emphasized by, among other things, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tuskaccording to which Trump’s tariff threats are a challenge for the EU unity, as customs and newcomers would test Member States in different ways.

“We have to take care of the relationship with the United States, but at the same time we must remain uniform,” Tusk emphasized.

However, the sources of Brussels say that unity has been put to the test, including because not all EU Member States have been relying on discussions when confidential information has leaked to the wrong parties.

Therefore, negotiating data on the United States and the EU has been exchanged bilaterally and in small groups. EU sources report that there have even been discussions in the bunker.