{"id":316491,"date":"2025-08-04T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316491\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:45:11","slug":"the-eus-economic-surrender-only-deepens-its-dependence-on-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316491\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s economic surrender only deepens its dependence on the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    PARIS \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>When U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shook hands at Trump\u2019s Scottish golf resort late last month, they weren\u2019t just announcing a new trade deal \u2014 they were formalizing Europe\u2019s economic and ideological surrender.<\/p>\n<p>By agreeing to 15% tariffs on most exports to the United States, the European Union has capitulated to Trump\u2019s zero-sum worldview. In doing so, it has abandoned the principles of multilateralism that have long guided global trade.<\/p>\n<p>The economic consequences are immediate and severe. European exporters now face tariffs nearly 10 times higher than the previous trade-weighted average of 1.6%. Volkswagen alone has reported a \u20ac1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) hit due to higher U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2013 When U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shook hands at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,115193,299,5187,1699,479,1201,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-316491","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-eu-u-s-relations","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-tariffs","15":"tag-trade","16":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114969151065691571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316491","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=316491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}