{"id":305014,"date":"2025-07-30T22:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305014\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:19:13","slug":"what-opponents-of-the-eu-us-trade-deal-get-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305014\/","title":{"rendered":"What opponents of the EU-US trade deal get wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">The critics were quick to jump in. Soon after the European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2025\/07\/28\/europe-averts-its-trumpian-trade-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck its trade deal<\/a> with President Donald Trump on July 27th, it was being savaged in European capitals. Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, the French prime minister, called it a \u201cdark day when an alliance of free peoples, united to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submit\u201d. Friedrich Merz, Germany\u2019s chancellor, worried about \u201csevere damage\u201d to the German economy. Viktor Orban, Hungary\u2019s populist leader, twisted the knife, saying that Mr Trump \u201cate Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The critics were quick to jump in. Soon after the European Commission struck its trade deal with President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,695,391,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-305014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-leaders","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944512053648351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305014","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=305014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}