EU and US Reach Tariff Agreement, Strategic Autonomy Becomes Empty Talk

The EU is on its knees! Foreign media reported today that on September 24, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, expressed optimism at a forum in New York that the European Parliament will approve the agreement between the EU and the US to impose a 15% tariff on EU goods exported to the US. The agreement covers almost all products.

This May, Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff on almost all EU goods. Just two months later, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reached a compromise with Trump. In the agreement, the EU not only accepted the tariff requirements for exports to the US, but also promised to eliminate tariffs on all American industrial products and pledged to invest $60 billion in the US. This clearly humiliating compromise agreement, von der Leyen claimed "even if not perfect, it is strong." Obviously, the EU has lost the courage to confront the US, and its emphasized "strategic autonomy" has completely become empty words.

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