{"id":217539,"date":"2025-06-27T03:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217539\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:12:12","slug":"eu-leaders-try-to-out-bully-trump-floating-world-trade-club-without-us-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217539\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders try to out-bully Trump, floating world trade club without US \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk revealed the bloc had to be \u201cvery innovative \u2026 sometimes maybe unpredictable \u2014 as our friends from the other side of Atlantic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poland currently holds the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. And Tusk, a former European Council president, is a veteran of Brexit negotiations, having chaired late-night summits in Brussels in an attempt to get a deal with the U.K. on its divorce from the bloc.\u00a0He couldn&#8217;t resist crowing about giving Trump a taste of his own medicine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13151854-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6824415\"  \/>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen decided the time for conventional negotiating tactics was over. | Oliver Hoslet\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all of us are aware about this new method how to negotiate and how to talk about trade and other communications,\u201d Tusk said, clearly referring to Trump\u2019s disruptive tactics. The U.S. is one of Europe\u2019s closest partners, he noted, \u201cbut we need to be similar to our partners in some sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen&#8217;s idea won public endorsement from Europe\u2019s most powerful leader, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. \u201cIf the WTO is as dysfunctional as it has been for years and apparently remains so, then we, who continue to consider free trade important, must come up with something else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is, von der Leyen\u2019s proposal may ultimately prove only a temporary distraction from what threatens to be a major defeat, when an agreement with Trump is finally unveiled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the summit, European leaders grimly digested the news of a fresh proposal from the U.S. for further negotiations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-talk-security-competitiveness-trade-live-updates\/#id_1312155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO was first to reveal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk revealed the bloc had to be \u201cvery innovative \u2026 sometimes maybe unpredictable \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1213,802,346,10684,2001,2437,6215,26259,473,32,5898,34,2000,299,5187,7058,1699,1945,85893,807,1114,5769,809,770,1218,479,1201,6862,1219,15,49,1220,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-217539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-cars","11":"tag-chemicals","12":"tag-communications","13":"tag-companies","14":"tag-cooperation","15":"tag-cptpp","16":"tag-defense","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-donald-tusk","19":"tag-emmanuel-macron","20":"tag-eu","21":"tag-europe","22":"tag-european","23":"tag-european-defense","24":"tag-european-union","25":"tag-friedrich-merz","26":"tag-gitanas-nauseda","27":"tag-keir-starmer","28":"tag-lithuania","29":"tag-medicines","30":"tag-negotiations","31":"tag-poland","32":"tag-steel","33":"tag-tariffs","34":"tag-trade","35":"tag-trade-agreements","36":"tag-trade-war","37":"tag-united-kingdom","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","40":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753146006521954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217539","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=217539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}