{"id":296005,"date":"2025-07-27T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296005\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:51:13","slug":"donald-trump-tells-europe-to-address-immigration-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296005\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump tells Europe to address immigration \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intensive negotiations are continuing on Saturday between the EU and the US before a crunch meeting in Scotland between Donald Trump<\/a> and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen<\/a>, to avert a costly trade war.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump spent the night at his family-owned Turnberry golf resort on a private visit, but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration claiming there won\u2019t be a Europe unless they \u201cget their act together\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI say two things to Europe. Stop the windmills. You\u2019re ruining your countries. I really mean it, it\u2019s so sad. You fly over and you see these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys and killing your birds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn immigration, you better get your act together,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to have Europe any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DonaldDonald Trump waves as he drives a golf buggy the Trump Turnberry golf courses in Turnberry, south-west Scotland, on Saturday. Photograph: Andy Buchanan\/Getty <\/p>\n

On Saturday morning, he abandoned a scheduled meeting with the press, who travelled with him on Air Force One, for a round of golf at his seaside course with music blaring from the buggy he drove.<\/p>\n

Sky News, stationed next to the course, reported the songs included Billy Joel\u2019s Uptown Girl, Elaine Paige\u2019s Memory and Simon and Garfunkel\u2019s Bridge over Troubled Water.<\/p>\n

Billed as a four-day family visit to Scotland, Mr Trump is meeting European leaders and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, raising hopes of new and refined trade deals with the EU and the UK.<\/p>\n

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On the prospects of an EU trade deal, the US president has said there were \u201c20 sticking points\u201d. When asked what they were, he said: \u201cWell, I don\u2019t want to tell you what the sticking points are.\u201d<\/p>\n

He described Ms von der Leyen as a \u201chighly respected woman\u201d and said the meeting on Sunday with the EU chief would be \u201cgood\u201d, rating the chances of a deal as \u201ca good 50-50\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ms von der Leyen and her aides are due in on Saturday, with the European trade commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, arriving on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It is expected the deal will centre on an outline agreement in principle over 15 per cent tariff rates for exports including cars, but with a 50 per cent tariff continuing on steel. There may also be a breakthrough deal on pharmaceuticals, setting a rate of 15 per cent for exports.<\/p>\n

Although this would breach a longstanding World Trade Organisation agreement that medicines are rated at a zero tariff, it would be a far cry from the 200 per cent tariff Trump threatened to impose on pharmaceuticals earlier this month.<\/p>\n

This would have triggered a highly damaging trade war not just with Ireland, where many US multinationals are based, but Germany, Denmark, Belgium, France and Spain.<\/p>\n

Ms Von der Leyen\u2019s spokesperson, Paula Pinho, said: \u201cIntensive negotiations at technical and political [level] have been ongoing between the EU and US. Leaders will now take stock and consider the scope for a balanced outcome that provides stability and predictability for businesses and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is believed the meeting will be held in Aberdeenshire and will be followed by a series of meetings with Mr Starmer on Monday, with hopes he will widen the bare bones trade deal he struck in May.<\/p>\n

\"Anti-TrumpAnti-Trump protesters gather outside the US consulate in Edinburgh on Saturday. Photograph: Robert Ormerod\/The New York Times <\/p>\n

A major security operation surrounded the US president\u2019s golf round at the start of a five-day-long private visit to Scotland.<\/p>\n

A large number of police and military personnel have been spotted searching the grounds at the venue in South Ayrshire.<\/p>\n

Various road closures have been put in place, with limited access for both locals and members of the media.<\/p>\n

With no talks apparently scheduled for Saturday, the president \u2013 a well-known golf enthusiast \u2013 appears to be free to play the famous Turnberry course.<\/p>\n

As well as visiting Trump Turnberry, Mr Trump will head to Aberdeenshire later in his visit and is expected to open a second course at his golf resort in Balmedie.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Edinburgh and in Aberdeen \u2013 near the site of Mr Trump\u2019s other Scottish golf resort \u2013 to make their opposition to the president known.<\/p>\n

In Aberdeen, Green north east Scotland MSP Maggie Chapman told the crowd of hundreds: \u201cWe stand in solidarity not only against Trump but against everything he and his politics stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about the US president, she said: \u201cHe believes that climate change isn\u2019t real, he believes that cutting services for those in the world with the least is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe say no to all of those things, not in our name, never in our name.\u201d<\/p>\n

She told the PA news agency: \u201cHe is not welcome in Scotland, he is certainly not welcome in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also know that all of the promises he has repeatedly made to Scotland have come to nothing, there hasn\u2019t been the development of jobs or houses that he promised when he opened his course in Aberdeenshire a few years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anita Bhadani was one of those who organised the Stop Trump Coalition protest outside the US Consulate General\u2019s office in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really excited, across this whole weekend, there\u2019s so many campaign groups turning out in the streets, tacking in action in their communities or at rallies like this \u2013 it\u2019s kind of like a carnival of resistance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said Mr Trump\u2019s \u201chuge promises\u201d of creating thousands of jobs through development around his Scottish golf courses had not come to pass.<\/p>\n

A number of speakers addressed the crowd, condemning Mr Trump, including one who chanted \u201cdeath to the IDF\u201d in apparent reference to the Israeli Defense Forces. – The Guardian and PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intensive negotiations are continuing on Saturday between the EU and the US before a crunch meeting in Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,1699,807,1216,712,1220,2612],"class_list":{"0":"post-296005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-maros-sefcovic","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","17":"tag-us-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925528046263008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296005","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=296005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}