{"id":135011,"date":"2025-05-27T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135011\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:28:11","slug":"the-eu-signals-willingness-to-fast-track-trade-talks-with-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135011\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU Signals Willingness to Fast-Track Trade Talks With the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Union said Monday that it is accelerating trade negotiations with the US in a bid to avert a costly transatlantic trade war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“They agreed both to fast-track the trade negotiations and to stay in close contact,” Paula Pinho, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, said during a press conference a day after EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke with President Donald Trump over the phone.<\/p>\n

“We are talking about, of course, the world’s single largest and closest trading relations, so these negotiations are complex,” Pinho added. “With this call, there’s now a new impetus for the negotiations.”<\/p>\n

The comments from the EU came days after Trump criticized the bloc for dragging its feet and taking advantage of the US.<\/p>\n

Earlier last week, the US rejected a trade proposal sent by the EU Commission.<\/p>\n

In a Friday social media post, Trump warned he would slap a\u00a050% tariff on EU goods<\/a>.\u00a0He said the 27-nation bloc has been “very difficult to deal with” and that trade negotiations were “going nowhere.” The tariffs were originally set to take effect on June 1.<\/p>\n

In response, the EU has also approved tariffs on $23.9 billion of US goods, including soybeans, poultry, motorcycles, and other farm products.<\/p>\n

After Sunday’s call, Trump said he would delay the planned tariff<\/a> hike on European goods<\/a> by over a month, with July 9 as the new deadline.<\/p>\n

“It was my privilege to do so,” Trump said of the tariff delay on Truth Social on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

More conversations seem to be taking place on the sidelines to de-escalate trade tensions.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Maros Sefcovic, the EU’s chief trade negotiator, said on X that he had “good calls” with the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, and ambassador Jamieson Greer. Sefcovic added that the EU was “fully committed” to reaching a trade deal by the July 9 deadline.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union said Monday that it is accelerating trade negotiations with the US in a bid to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[59245,30973,3590,2000,299,5187,1699,59243,1216,1327,59246,37601,3075,59244,1757,23108,978,59242],"class_list":{"0":"post-135011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-tariff-return","9":"tag-call","10":"tag-day","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-july","16":"tag-maros-sefcovic","17":"tag-monday","18":"tag-new-deadline","19":"tag-sunday","20":"tag-tariff","21":"tag-trade-negotiation","22":"tag-trump","23":"tag-truth-social","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-willingness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114577913282677373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135011","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=135011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}