The European Union aims to “enter” the United States: passing weapons between Trump and the 27

The founding fathers of Europe had to turn into their graves by the intentions that Donald Trump lends to them. On Wednesday, when he brought his office to the White House for the first time, the republican billionaire attacked his historic ally, once again. “I like European countries. I like all these countries, really, all different. But the European Union was designed to enter the United States. It was the goal and they got there, ”said the Republican president.

As usual, Donald Trump is bothering little about history, for example, making sure that the European project was historically supported by Washington or that European construction was promoted as a response to the two world conflicts that ravaged the continent.

“On the contrary”

It does not matter to him that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, went to Washington on Monday, where he redoubled with kindness, while urging his counterpart not to launch a trade war. Two days later, the American president announced to those around him that he decided to apply 25 % customs duties to European products entering his territory.

Same story on the Paris side. “Let us be clear: if the Americans maintain increases in customs duties, which was announced by President Trump, the European Union will do the same,” warned the Minister of the Economy, Éric Lombard warned.

In mid-February in Munich, US vice-president JD Vance had stunned Europeans by criticizing their political models with virulence. He had in particular criticized European countries a “decline” of freedom of expression and of having a “big problem of immigration”, marrying the views of far -right parties in a discourse that had left aside the threats linked to Russia or China.

A sign of tensions between the two parties, the head of EU Kaja Kallas diplomacy, which had announced on Monday that it would go to the United States “to meet Marco Rubio and other representatives” because it is important to have “as many interactions as possible with the new American administration”, will not see the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Officially, due to “agenda problems,” said the EU on Wednesday.