{"id":130487,"date":"2025-05-25T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130487\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T11:12:09","slug":"german-minister-urges-serious-talks-with-us-on-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130487\/","title":{"rendered":"German minister urges &#8216;serious talks&#8217; with US on tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/121391881.jpg\" alt=\"German minister urges 'serious talks' with US on tariffs\" title=\"German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil ( AP) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil ( AP)  BERLIN: German finance minister Lars Klingbeil on Sunday urged &#8220;serious negotiations&#8221; with the United States after President Donald Trump threatened to bring in 50-percent tariffs on imports from the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/european union\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a>.Trump made the threat on Friday, saying &#8220;discussions (with the EU) are going nowhere&#8221; and adding that the tariffs would be applied from June 1, just a week away.If imposed, they would dramatically raise Washington&#8217;s current baseline levy of 10 percent, and fuel simmering tensions between two of the world&#8217;s economic heavyweights.Klingbeil told the Bild newspaper that &#8220;we don&#8217;t need any further provocations, but serious negotiations&#8221; and added that he had spoken with his US counterpart Scott Bessent about the matter.Trump said on Friday that he is &#8220;not looking for a deal&#8221;, repeating his long-standing view that the EU, conceived to seal postwar peace in Europe, &#8220;banded together to take advantage of us&#8221;.Klingbeil said that &#8220;the US tariffs endanger the US economy just as much as the German and European economy&#8221;.Stock markets fell in the wake of Trump&#8217;s comments amid fears of renewed global economic disruption. The US dollar also took a beating.The EU&#8217;s trade chief Maros Sefcovic reacted to Trump by saying the bloc was &#8220;committed to securing a deal that works for both&#8221; and that trade relations &#8220;must be guided by mutual respect, not threats&#8221;.Klingbeil reiterated Germany&#8217;s support for the EU in handling the talks with the US.&#8221;We as Europeans are united and determined to represent our interests,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil ( AP) BERLIN: German finance minister Lars Klingbeil on Sunday urged &#8220;serious negotiations&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[57610,2000,57609,299,1699,57608,1824,57613,1216,57612,57614,57611,57607],"class_list":{"0":"post-130487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-donald-trump-threat","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-trade-relations","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-german-minister-lars-klingbeil","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-global-economic-disruption","16":"tag-maros-sefcovic","17":"tag-serious-negotiations","18":"tag-stock-market-reaction","19":"tag-tariff-increase","20":"tag-us-tariffs-on-eu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114568177583858601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}