EU/FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump picked a fight with French President Emmanuel Macron over European defense just as Air Force One landed in France on Friday [11-9-18]…He is set to spend the weekend in Paris to commemorate the centennial of the end of World War I. Tuesday [11-6-18] on Europe 1 radio, Macron called […]
Category: EU
10/24/2018
EU/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For those who want and advocate for illegal immigration, just take a good look at what has happened to Europe over the last 5 years. A total mess! They only wish they had that decision to make over again.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 24, 2018 6:52 am […]
10/22/2018
EU/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media has been talking about recent approval ratings of me by countries around the world, including the European Union, as being very low….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 22, 2018 2:18 pm […]
10/22/2018
CHINA/EU/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the past few days the shape of what many in Europe and the United States call a new Cold War has begun to emerge — with threats and nuclear weapons that resemble the old one, punctuated by new dynamics, in part because of the rise of a rich, expanding and nationalist […]
10/18/2018
CANADA/CHINA/ECONOMY/EU/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Take a trade war with China, mix in frosty economic relations with Canada and Europe, add in Federal Reserve rate hikes and here’s what you get: A recession by 2020. So says Ronald Temple, head of US equity for Lazard Asset Management. He told CNN Business that President Donald Trump’s protectionist […]
10/17/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Europe’s fragile peace deal with the U.S. on trade is at a breaking point. Washington is again threatening high tariffs on Europe’s all-important car industry just as U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to whip up support before midterm elections on Nov. 6. In an unusually outspoken attack, two top U.S. […]
10/5/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “European Union ministers debated on Friday [10-5-18] what to offer the United States to ease trade tensions and avoid a return to a tit-for-tat tariff conflict that could hit EU cars. U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in July to hold back on a threatened 25-percent import tariff on EU cars while […]
9/26/2018
CHINA/EU/FRANCE/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “US President Donald Trump was ‘ranting and venting on trade’ to French President Emmanuel Macron during their bilateral meeting Monday [9-24-18] evening, according to a senior diplomatic source. Trump lambasted the European Union for its trade policies, saying it was worse than China — a complaint that the US president made […]
9/20/2018
ASIA/EU/IRAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “When President Trump travels to New York on Sunday [9-23-18] for his second visit to the United Nations, he will face tensions with allies in Europe and Asia — but not necessarily of a predictable sort. Administration officials contend that Mr. Trump’s well-documented rift with the Europeans over his withdrawal from […]
9/13/2018
BUSINESS/EU/SECRET SERVICE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Secret Service plans to buy a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle, despite President Donald Trump’s public feud with the company. Paperwork detailing the Secret Service’s plans to purchase a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle this fall was published to the Federal Business Opportunities website, and was first reported by Roll Call. The synopsis of […]
9/11/2018
EU/IRELAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s planned trip to Ireland in November is now in question after the Irish government announced its postponement Tuesday [9-11-18]. Complicating matters, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders claimed in a statement shortly afterward that the administration was still ‘finalizing’ whether Ireland would be a stop on a previously announced […]
9/11/2018
EU/IRELAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s plan to visit Ireland for the first time as U.S. president this November has been canceled for scheduling reasons, the Irish government announced on Tuesday [9-11-18]. But the White House did not immediately confirm the cancellation, saying it was still finalizing plans for Trump’s November trip to Europe. Trump announced […]
9/6/2018
CHINA/EU/GERMANY/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “German industrial orders fell unexpectedly in July on weak foreign demand, data showed on Thursday [9-6-18], in a further sign that factories in Europe’s largest economy are feeling the bite of U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies. The Federal Statistics Office said contracts for ‘Made in Germany’ goods were down […]
8/31/2018
AUTO INDUSTRY/CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Trump administration sought trade concessions from Mexico in recent weeks, automakers and their suppliers feared that manufacturing costs could increase by billions of dollars. Now, they are breathing a sigh of relief. The auto industry is still waiting to learn details of the preliminary agreement that President Trump […]
8/27/2018
BRITAIN/EU/FRANCE/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Emmanuel Macron on Monday [8-27-18] said preserving European Union unity was more important than forging a close relationship with post-Brexit Britain, and hit out at what he called U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive’ isolationism. As pressure mounts on Prime Minister Theresa May to agree terms for Britain’s divorce from the EU […]
8/2/2018
AGRICULTURE/EU/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After the U.S. slapped tariffs on European steel and aluminum in June, Europe hit back with a tax that, among other things, made American kidney beans 25% more expensive in Europe. Now, Cindy Brown is running out of room to store kidney beans. One-ton bags of them cover the floors in […]
7/30/2018
EU/IMMIGRATION/ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump praised Italy’s increasingly hard-line approach to immigration on Monday [7-30-18], at the start of a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the White House…Conte took office last month promising to bring radical change to Italy, including more generous welfare provision and a crackdown on immigration. Immigration […]
7/29/2018
AGRICULTURE/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top Trump administration official said Sunday [7-29-18] the U.S. will ‘immediately’ start negotiating with the European Union to forge trade agreements on farm and energy products, promising ‘an actual transaction’ right away to sell more soybeans, beef and liquefied natural gas to European countries. Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s chief economic […]
7/26/2018
ENERGY/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump met with Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, at the White House, the two said they were entering a new phase in their relationship. Crucial to that will be natural gas. Demand for natural gas — a cleaner-burning fossil fuel than coal or oil — is rising […]
7/26/2018
EU/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When he arrived in the Oval Office for negotiations over their growing trade war, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, brought a small gift for President Trump, a renowned admirer of military commanders. It was a photograph of the cemetery in Luxembourg where Gen. George S. Patton is buried. […]
7/26/2018
CHINA/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump plans to travel here later on Thursday [7-26-18] to visit a steel mill that the White House says benefited from his tough trade moves against China and other steel exporters, a day after he temporarily averted a trade war with the European Union. Mr. Trump’s visit to the Granite […]
7/26/2018
EU/OBAMA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump called a truce with the European Union over trade, the general outlines of his plan sounded familiar. It echoed of earlier negotiations — the ones started under President Barack Obama and shelved by Mr. Trump last year. Mr. Trump, in many ways, is taking credit for solving a […]
7/26/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [7-26-18] touted its truce with Europe to nervous lawmakers as evidence that its trade policies are starting to show results, but Republicans pushed the administration to accelerate efforts to find similar solutions on other trade fronts. President Trump flew to the agricultural and industrial Midwest Thursday […]
7/26/2018
EU/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Jean-Claude Juncker arrived at the White House on Wednesday [7-26-18], the European Commission president had no idea how the meeting with President Donald Trump would end. When asked on his flight from Brussels whether he was ready, after having pored through piles of documents stacked in blue folders, he smiled […]
7/26/2018
ENERGY/EU/RUSSIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump wants Europe to buy more U.S. gas, but Vladimir Putin’s Russia stands in the way. On Wednesday [7-25-18], Mr. Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker dialed down trade tensions with measures that include a preliminary agreement for Europe to buy more liquefied natural gas from the U.S. […]
7/25/2018
EU/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States and the European Union have a $1 TRILLION bilateral trade relationship – the largest economic relationship in the world. We want to further strengthen this trade relationship to the benefit of all American and European citizens… https://t.co/4zlmEEtCpG“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2018 3:57 pm […]
7/25/2018
EU/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7-25-18] he hopes to work out a fair and reciprocal trade deal between the United States and Europe as he welcomed the head of the European Commission to the White House for talks…The United States and EU are locked in a trade dispute stemming […]
7/25/2018
AGRICULTURE/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump slammed critics of his trade policies on Wednesday [7-25-18], warning they are undermining his negotiating position while American farmers are being ‘ripped off.’ Mr. Trump’s remarks, aimed at critics he didn’t name, came hours ahead of a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in which trade tensions […]
7/24/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker left for Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, his mission was to try to dissuade the American president from escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and EU. Then Mr. Trump started tweeting. ‘Tariffs are the greatest!’ Mr. Trump declared early Tuesday [7-24-18]. ‘Either a […]
7/24/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is not known for backing down, but the Europeans are coming to Washington anyway to see if they can convince him to rein in his trade policies. Less than two weeks after calling the European Union a ‘foe,’ Trump will meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at […]
7/23/2018
BUSINESS/COMMERCE/EU/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [7-23-18] threatened Europe’s car exports ahead of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s visit to Washington later this week, saying the European Union has been ‘very tough’ on the U.S…Trump is weighing a 20 percent tariff on imports of automobiles and auto parts under a law that allows […]
7/22/2018
CHINA/EU/G20/STEVE MNUCHIN/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The finance ministers and central bankers of the G-20 group of countries ended their meeting here with little progress on resolving global trade tensions sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with the U.S. and EU both insisting their conditions for trade talks must be met. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin […]
7/20/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/EU/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump accused China and the European Union of manipulating their currencies and continued to criticize the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, saying those moves are putting the United States at a disadvantage. In a flurry of early-morning Twitter posts, Mr. Trump complained that the Fed’s rate increases and a […]
7/20/2018
CHINA/ECONOMY/EU/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump escalated his criticism of the Federal Reserve Friday [7-20-18], saying in a tweet that its efforts to raise short-term interest rates hurt the U.S. economic expansion, and he accused China and the European Union of manipulating their currencies to hurt the U.S. on trade. The tweets came shortly […]
7/20/2018
BUSINESS/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 20, 2018 9:39 am […]
7/20/2018
CHINA/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China, the European Union and others have been manipulating their currencies and interest rates lower, while the U.S. is raising rates while the dollars gets stronger and stronger with each passing day – taking away our big competitive edge. As usual, not a level playing field…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 20, 2018 […]
7/19/2018
EU/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Thursday [7-19-18] that the European Union’s $5 billion antitrust fine on Alphabet Inc.’s Google is evidence that the bloc has ‘taken advantage of the U.S.,’ and suggested that change is on the way…The fine on Google and Mr. Trump’s sharp response come amid a growing trade […]
7/19/2018
BUSINESS/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They truly have taken advantage of the U.S., but not for long!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 19, 2018 8:11 am […]
7/15/2018
BREXIT/BRITAIN/EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday [7-15-18] revealed the advice President Trump had given her on how to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union: Go straight to court. Mrs. May was asked by the BBC about comments Mr. Trump made both in an interview in the British tabloid The Sun and […]
7/13/2018
BRITAIN/EU/MILITARY/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “European allies knew to expect the unexpected from President Trump, especially after their rancorous encounter last month at the Group of 7 summit meeting in Canada. But Mr. Trump’s European tour has still rattled many on the Continent and in Britain, who have watched from a distance the chaos he creates on […]
7/13/2018
BRITAIN/EU/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [7-13-18] tried to repair the diplomatic damage he caused with an explosive interview blasting his host, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, by praising her leadership and calling their two countries’ relationship ‘the highest level of special,’ even as he continued to publicly question her decisions. During a […]
7/11/2018
EU/GERMANY/NATO/RUSSIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What good is NATO if Germany is paying Russia billions of dollars for gas and energy? Why are there only 5 out of 29 countries that have met their commitment? The U.S. is paying for Europe’s protection, then loses billions on Trade. Must pay 2% of GDP IMMEDIATELY, not by 2025.” […]
7/11/2018
EU/GERMANY/NATO/RUSSIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What good is NATO if Germany is paying Russia billions of dollars for gas and energy? Why are their only 5 out of 29 countries that have met their commitment? The U.S. is paying for Europe’s protection, then loses billions on Trade. Must pay 2% of GDP IMMEDIATELY, not by 2025.” […]
7/11/2018
CHILDREN/CONGRESS/DEMS/EU/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats in Congress must no longer Obstruct – vote to fix our terrible Immigration Laws now. I am watching what is going on from Europe – it would be soooo simple to fix. Judges run the system and illegals and traffickers know how it works. They are just using children!” -Donald Trump, […]
7/10/2018
EU/NATO/RUSSIA/SPENDING/TRADE WARS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump renewed his criticism of European allies on Tuesday [7-10-18] and said he was most optimistic about meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as he departed for a summit meeting in Brussels that threatens to highlight acrimony within NATO. Mr. Trump’s comments touched off a round of trans-Atlantic […]
7/10/2018
EU/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The first couple departed the White House for a week in Europe early Tuesday [7-10-18] morning, walking hand in hand across the South Lawn to Marine One…And while the first lady isn’t set to give any formal remarks during the trip — which includes stops in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Scotland and […]
7/10/2018
EU/FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump leveled fresh criticism against allies over their military spending as he headed off on seven-day tour through Europe that begins with a NATO gathering and ends with a summit with President Vladimir Putin aimed at resetting U.S. relations with Moscow. The trip will showcase two foreign-policy thrusts of […]
7/10/2018
AGRICULTURE/EU/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe (U.S. has a $151 Billion trade deficit), and then they want us to happily defend them through NATO, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 10, 2018 1:52 […]
7/10/2018
EU/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said his easiest meeting on his foreign trip to Europe during the next week may be his sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump spoke to reporters before leaving for the NATO summit in Brussels, the first stop on his trip. He then plans to travel to the […]
7/10/2018
EU/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @ShennaFoxxx: @realDonaldTrump #TrumpUKVisit?? To the 45th @POTUS Donald J Trump @FLOTUS @MELANIATRUMP The British people are looking f…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 10, 2018 5:44 am […]
7/10/2018
EU/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Behind President Donald Trump’s frequent attacks on European allies is a deeper neglect of the trans-Atlantic relationship: unfilled positions, truncated meetings, missed or crossed signals and confusion over basic policies. Aides to the president insist that Trump’s disputes with Europe are part of a long history of disagreements between leaders who, in […]
7/10/2018
EU/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Getting ready to leave for Europe. First meeting – NATO. The U.S. is spending many times more than any other country in order to protect them. Not fair to the U.S. taxpayer. On top of that we lose $151 Billion on Trade with the European Union. Charge us big Tariffs (& Barriers)!” […]
7/9/2018
EU/GERMANY/NATO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Donald Trump shortly after he took office, the new U.S. president opened the meeting by telling her, ‘Angela, you owe me one trillion dollars.’ It was his estimate of a 14-year gap between what Germany spent on its own defense and what it had promised to […]
7/9/2018
EU/NATO/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…Europe far more than it does the U.S. By some accounts, the U.S. is paying for 90% of NATO, with many countries nowhere close to their 2% commitment. On top of this the European Union has a Trade Surplus of $151 Million with the U.S., with big Trade Barriers on U.S. […]
7/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/EU/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump plans to raise the issue of Russia’s ‘malign activity’ in Europe, its efforts to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election and allegations that Moscow possesses banned missile technology in a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this month, a senior administration official said Thursday [7-5-18]. […]
7/3/2018
BUSINESS/EU/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-3-18] continued his criticisms of Harley-Davidson, saying his administration is working with motorcycle companies who want to work in the United States…Harley-Davidson and Trump have been at odds since last week after the company announced it would move some production overseas to avoid tariffs imposed by the […]
7/2/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “U.S. President Donald Trump warned the World Trade Organization on Monday [7-2-18] that ‘we’ll be doing something’ if the United States is not treated properly, just hours after the European Union said that U.S. automotive tariffs would hurt its own vehicle industry and prompt retaliation. Trump, speaking to reporters during a meeting […]
6/28/2018
EU/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “EU leaders agreed to hold their tongues — and their noses — as they brace for U.S. President Donald Trump to barnstorm into Europe. As leaders convened in Brussels on Thursday [6-28-18] for one of their busiest summits in recent memory, Trump provided fresh outrage — an assertion at a rally in […]
6/28/2018
EU/FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday [6-29-18] he would not comment directly on a report that Donald Trump suggested France leave the EU — but his commitment to Europe made clear what his response would have been. Back in April, Trump proposed to Macron that France leave the EU, the Washington Post […]
6/26/2018
BUSINESS/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump lashed out at one of his favorite American manufacturers on Tuesday [6-26-18], criticizing Harley-Davidson over its plans to move some of its motorcycle production abroad and threatening it with steep punitive taxes. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, the president accused the Wisconsin-based company of surrendering in Mr. […]
6/26/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….We are finishing our study of Tariffs on cars from the E.U. in that they have long taken advantage of the U.S. in the form of Trade Barriers and Tariffs. In the end it will all even out – and it won’t take very long!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 26, 2018 […]
6/25/2018
BUSINESS/EU/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Harley-Davidson, the American motorcycle manufacturer, said on Monday [6-25-18] that it would shift some production of its iconic bikes overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs imposed by the European Union in response to President Trump’s trade moves. The decision, announced in a public filing, is the latest and most high-profile example of how […]
6/25/2018
CANADA/CHINA/EU/GOP/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is taking his trade policy on the road this week. But the reception he is set to receive in a series of crucial 2018 states may not be what he had hoped. A series of threatening trade wars have become a weight on the President and Republicans across […]
6/22/2018
CHINA/EU/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump repeated Friday [6-22-18] his threat to slap stiff tariffs on European cars, hours after the European Union started imposing duties on a range of American products worth $3 billion in retaliation for separate Trump curbs imposed on steel and aluminum. Mr. Trump’s latest rhetorical broadside over trade indicates his […]
6/22/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build […]
6/18/2018
EU/GERMANY/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 18, 2018 8:04 […]
6/15/2018
EU/G7/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great discussions with European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Council President Donald Tusk at the #G7Summit in Canada last week. https://t.co/kGxXe50459“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 5:32 pm […]
6/13/2018
BUSINESS/CANADA/EU/FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s eager embrace of Kim Jong-un of North Korea this week, on the heels of an acrid falling-out with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, raised an obvious, if confounding, question: Why would an American president offend allies and cozy up to adversaries? If there was an answer in […]
6/7/2018
CANADA/EU/FRANCE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and President Macron that they are charging the U.S. massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers. The EU trade surplus with the U.S. is $151 Billion, and Canada keeps our farmers and others out. Look forward to seeing them tomorrow.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 3:04 pm […]
6/6/2018
EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a letter to senior Trump administration officials, European foreign and finance leaders this week tacitly acknowledged that their efforts to preserve the West’s nuclear deal with Iran were failing. In the letter, sent on Monday [6-4-18] to the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the European leaders […]
6/6/2018
CANADA/EU/JAPAN/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. allies Canada, Japan and the European Union are banding together to increase pressure on Washington following the Trump administration’s metals tariffs as they head to a meeting of Group of Seven industrialized countries in Quebec on Friday [6-8-18]. With trade likely to dominate the agenda of the summit, the U.S. […]
CANADA/CHINA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many small companies in the United States can expect to pay more for steel and aluminum following the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on imports from Europe, Canada and Mexico, small business advocacy groups say. Business owners also face the prospect of higher costs if the administration follows through on threats to […]
6/4/2018
CANADA/CHINA/ECONOMY/EU/GOP/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump defended his tough trade negotiations with China, Canada and Mexico on Monday [6-4-18], saying the U.S. would soon be in a stronger position with its top trading partners. Trump faced pushback from U.S. allies and an influential Republican group, which warned that the tariffs would hinder the nation’s […]
6/4/2018
CHINA/COMMERCE/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Groups backed by powerful Republican donors Charles and David Koch said on Monday [6-4-18] they will champion free trade and oppose tariffs with a multimillion-dollar campaign that puts them on a collision course with President Donald Trump. The embrace of free trade principles by major Republican donors comes as Trump pursues […]
5/31/2018
CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration raised the prospect of a global trade war by imposing tariffs on imports from the closest U.S. neighbors and allies, who swiftly pledged to retaliate with duties of their own. President Donald Trump is pursuing an aggressive strategy to win economic concessions from neighbors and allies in an […]
5/31/2018
CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said on Thursday [5-31-18] that it would impose tariffs on metals imported from its closest allies, a measure certain to strain diplomatic relationships and provoke retaliation against businesses and consumers in the United States. Tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum from the European Union, […]
5/31/2018
CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision Thursday [5-31-18] to slap steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the European Union capped a whipsaw week that reflected not just the deep divisions among his top economic advisers, but the changeable attitudes of the irascible and unpredictable president himself. Senior administration officials profess privately […]
5/31/2018
CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s move to slap penalties on imports from U.S. allies and China is moving the country to the brink of a global trade war — with U.S. consumers, farmers and manufacturers caught in the middle — as the White House tries to wrest concessions from reluctant trading partners. The […]
5/31/2018
CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “The U.S. will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union starting on Friday [6-1-18], the Trump administration said, raising the specter of trade war with some of Washington’s closest allies, who said they would retaliate. Mexico’s Economy Ministry quickly said it would target several U.S. […]
5/31/2018
BUSINESS/CANADA/COMMERCE/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid more than 200 points Thursday [5-31-18] as investors broadly recoiled from the stock market after the Trump administration made good on its plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Of the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow industrials, 28 traded lower, while all major […]
5/31/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WTO: “President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum from the European Union marks a new low in deteriorating trans-Atlantic relations and promises to complicate life for EU leaders grappling with growing problems inside the bloc. Coming just weeks after Mr. Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and a […]
5/28/2018
CHINA/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The European Union’s top trade official will meet U.S. counterparts in Paris on Wednesday [5-30-18], according to EU officials, in a last-ditch effort to secure waivers from steel and aluminum tariffs and to engage Washington on efforts to tackle China’s market-distorting policies. European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom will press U.S. Commerce […]
5/22/2018
BUSINESS/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is weighing measures to cut European Union steel and aluminum exports to the U.S. by about 10%, in a sign the bloc’s concessions to secure tariff exemptions aren’t meeting White House demands, EU officials familiar with the talks said. Washington proposed two options for Brussels: a quota fixed […]
5/17/2018
ENERGY[ALTERNATIVE/EU/GERMANY/RUSSIA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is pressing Germany to pull the brakes on a major gas deal with Russia as the price for avoiding a trans-Atlantic trade war, according to German, U.S. and European officials. The officials said Mr. Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in April that Germany should drop support for […]
5/16/2018
EU/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’With friends like that, who needs enemies.’ That was how Donald Tusk, one of the European Union’s top officials, took President Trump to task on Wednesday [5-16-18], offering the latest look at how the Continent’s leaders are trying to come to terms with the United States’ shifting policy on issues like […]
5/15/2018
EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States escalated its financial pressure on Iran Tuesday [5-15-18] by slapping terror sanctions on the head of its central bank and barring anyone around the world from doing business with him, underscoring President Donald Trump’s hard line after his withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear accord upset European allies. Valiollah Seif, […]
5/14/2018
EU/ISRAEL/MIDDLE EAST/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Washington’s allies in Europe and the Middle East criticized the U.S. for opening a new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday [5-14-18] and called on Israel to restrain its forces after dozens of Palestinian protesters were killed in clashes. The episode marked the latest point of discord to emerge between the U.S. […]
5/14/2018
EU/IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to German, French and British counterparts in recent days to discuss cooperation over Iran, a State Department spokeswoman said on Monday 5-14-18] a week after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal…The White House on Sunday [5-13-18] threatened to impose sanctions […]
5/13/2018
EU/IRAN/MIKE POMPEO/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, said on Sunday [5-13-18] that European officials should have known that President Trump would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, despite months of negotiations to salvage the accord that they believed had brought them close to satisfying the president’s demands…Mr. Bolton’s remarks could […]
5/11/2018
CHINA/EU/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s Donald Trump’s latest rebrand — global man of action. The President is taking his political chaos theory beyond America’s borders and racking up wins for his faithful political base. Positioning himself as a domineering global figure to shore up his standing back home, Trump is changing the subject from the […]
5/9/2018
ASIA/EU/IRAN/MIDDLE EAST/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SANCTIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Having returned from North Korea on Thursday [5-10-18], Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on talks to persuade allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to press Iran to return to negotiations over its nuclear and missile programs, U.S. officials said. The open question is whether the allies, […]
5/9/2018
EU/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is by now a familiar, humiliating pattern. European leaders cajole, argue and beg, trying to persuade President Trump to change his mind on a vital issue for the trans-Atlantic alliance. Mr. Trump appears to enjoy the show, dangling them, before ultimately choosing not to listen. Instead, he demands compliance, seemingly […]
5/9/2018
EU/IRAN/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “European leaders on Wednesday [5-9-18] began drawing up plans to preserve the Iran nuclear accord, in defiance of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday [5-8-18] decision to abandon what he called the ‘rotten’ agreement. The possible action includes legislation that would block Washington from punishing European companies that continue to do business with Iran. […]
5/9/2018
EU/FRANCE/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Europe has a ‘limited opportunity’ to preserve the nuclear deal with Tehran, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call on Wednesday [5-9-19], according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency…Macron traveled to the United States in late April in an attempt to convince U.S. President Donald Trump […]
5/8/2018
EU/FRANCE/GERMANY/IRAN/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, leaders from France, Germany and the United Kingdom — key signatories to the six-nation negotiating group that brokered the 2015 Obama-era Iran deal — had tried to persuade US President Donald Trump to stay or renegotiate the deal. But on Tuesday [5-8-18] afternoon, it appeared those efforts were wasted, as […]
5/7/2018
EU/IRAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is expected to announce on Tuesday [5-7-18] that he is withdrawing the United States from the Iran nuclear deal, European diplomats said after concluding that they had failed to convince him that reneging on America’s commitment to the pact could cast the West into new confrontation with Tehran. If […]
5/1/2018
EU/IRAN/ISRAEL/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Tuesday [5-1-18] embraced Israel’s claims that Iran entered a nuclear deal with the world’s major powers under false pretenses, a stark divergence from its European allies, who said the disclosures broke little new ground and reinforced, rather than weakened, the case for the 2015 deal. The administration echoed […]
5/1/2018
CHINA/EU/TRADE DEALS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has set the stage for weeks of heightened tension between the U.S. and its trading partners as administration officials race to meet self-imposed deadlines to complete a series of high-stakes negotiations with China, Mexico, Canada and Europe. A U.S. trade delegation left Tuesday [5-1-18] for China hoping to […]
4/30/2018
EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A trade standoff between the U.S. and the European Union went late into Monday [4-30-18], with the Trump administration deferring until the last minute a decision on whether to impose planned tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from the bloc’s members and other countries. Just hours ahead of a self-imposed midnight […]
4/30/2018
CANADA/EU/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration said on Monday [4-30-18] that it would delay a decision to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico for another 30 days, giving key allies a reprieve as the White House tries to extract concessions from trading partners who have resisted those demands. The […]