{"id":371304,"date":"2025-08-25T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371304\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:08:09","slug":"trump-deal-threatens-eus-image-as-champion-of-rules-based-trade-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371304\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump deal threatens EU\u2019s image as champion of rules-based trade \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first, Brussels resisted the idea of coordinating with other countries hit by Trump\u2019s tariffs, such as Canada or Mexico. But it eventually changed course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main criticism that can be made against the Commission is that it did not seriously try to build an international anti-Trump coalition,\u201d former WTO chief Lamy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something that Brussels tried to fix in late June, when at a leaders&#8217; summit, von der Leyen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-donald-trump-us-trade-tariffs-ursula-von-der-leyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">floated the idea of a new club<\/a> in which the EU\u2019s 27 countries would join forces with the members of the Pacific-focused Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP, bloc, which counts the U.K., Canada, Japan, Mexico and Australia among its members.<\/p>\n<p>This was met with enthusiasm from the leader of the bloc\u2019s biggest economy, 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 told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talks between EU and CPTPP negotiators are now expected later this year, with the goal of coordinating efforts to defend rules-based trade in the face of Trump\u2019s tariff offensive, <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/203104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a top New Zealand finance official told POLITICO<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way the EU can rebuild trust in the system is by coordinating with other members, beyond the U.S., to ensure WTO rules are respected,\u201d said Molina, who now heads up his own law firm, Molina &amp; Associates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will require leadership and teamwork \u2014 and the hope that Washington eventually realizes this trade war hurts American interests and consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At first, Brussels resisted the idea of coordinating with other countries hit by Trump\u2019s tariffs, such as Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[186,943,346,5168,26259,27332,32,2000,299,5187,1214,474,1945,2826,129925,1197,2122,2441,2132,2597,704,129494,32776,811,2824,479,1201,1219,657,15,49,1220,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-371304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cars","11":"tag-construction","12":"tag-cptpp","13":"tag-dispute-settlement","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-exports","19":"tag-finance","20":"tag-friedrich-merz","21":"tag-golf","22":"tag-ignacio-garcia-bercero","23":"tag-investment","24":"tag-japan","25":"tag-markets","26":"tag-mexico","27":"tag-military","28":"tag-new-zealand","29":"tag-pascal-lamy","30":"tag-sabine-weyand","31":"tag-security","32":"tag-tanks","33":"tag-tariffs","34":"tag-trade","35":"tag-trade-war","36":"tag-ukraine","37":"tag-united-kingdom","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","40":"tag-war","41":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115087206335955780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371304","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=371304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}