{"id":393853,"date":"2025-09-03T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:18:10","slug":"commissions-eu-us-trade-deal-broker-to-be-grilled-in-parliamentary-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/393853\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission’s EU-US trade deal broker to be grilled in Parliamentary hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

By&nbspPeggy Corlin<\/a>&nbsp&&nbspVincenzo Genovese<\/b><\/p>\n

\n Published on
\n 03\/09\/2025 – 8:00 GMT+2\n <\/p>\n

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MEPs are set to complain widely about the EU-US trade agreement<\/a> when they confront Commission trade chief and agreement negotiator Sabine Weyand during a Parliamentary hearing on the deal on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile clearly we understand that the EU has chosen stability, diplomacy and to keep a cool-minded approach, however this cannot translate into the acceptance of an unfair and asymmetric trade relation with our American friends and partners,\u201d Italian MEP Brando Benifei.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs it is now, it is not acceptable,\u201d Benifei told Euronews, speaking on behalf of his Socialists & Democrats group.<\/p>\n

Last week the Commission proposed reducing tariffs<\/a> on most US industrial goods, as well as less sensitive agricultural products, to 0%, as it began implementing the agreement reached with the US at the end of August.\u00a0At the same time, the agreement provides that the EU will pay a 15% tariff on its exports to the US.<\/p>\n

The Commission\u2019s legislative proposal must now navigate its way through the Parliament and the EU Council for approval.<\/p>\n

The Greens are also speaking out against an unbalanced agreement and rejecting the Commission\u2019s argument that it will ensure stable trade relations with the US.<\/p>\n

“The deal has major disadvantages for the EU,\u201d German Green MEP Anna Cavazzini said, adding: \u201cThe only ‘gain’\u00a0that the Commission is selling us is stability. However, Trump’s incessant demands and new tariff threats are turning this process into a waste of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just after the agreement was concluded, US President Donald Trump threatened countries with digital legislation \u2014 like the EU \u2014 with tariffs, accusing them of directly targeting Big Tech.<\/p>\n

According to the German MEP, the proposal to reduce EU tariffs on US imports will clearly \u201cnot have a smooth sailing through the European Parliament.”<\/p>\n

The agreement, which is still under discussion within the Parliament’s largest group, the centre-right EPP, has nonetheless failed to win the full support of some of its individual members within the parliamentary committee on trade.<\/p>\n

“Capitulation”<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an outright capitulation \u2014 we\u2019re committing to colossal sums for investments and pledges to purchase billions worth of chips and military equipment, while granting the US 0% tariffs,\u201d French MEP Celine Imart (EPP) said, \u201call this for the reindustrialisation of the US !\u201d<\/p>\n

Swedish MEP J\u00f6rgen\u00a0Warborn, who coordinates the work of the EPP within the trade committee, is more cautious.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hard to put yourself in the situation of the negotiators of the Commission,\u201d he told Euronews, adding: \u201cIt is good that we have a framework agreement, because hopefully this can give us more stability. But at the same time, I don’t see the deal as balanced as I would have hoped it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within Renew, the liberal group at the Parliament, some MEPs are also angry. The treatment granted to US agricultural products \u2014 benefiting from 0% tariffs or favourable quotas for certain items \u2014 is not going down well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m outraged by the whole situation. Yes, of course, there are the US\u2019s promises when it comes to defence, but this agreement truly exposes our total dependence, which forces us to sign just about anything,\u201d Belgian MEP Benoit Cassart (Renew), who is also a farmer, said, adding: \u201cI disagree with those who think the EU has ‘won’ just because things didn\u2019t turn out worse. If that\u2019s the logic, then next time the US will start at 50% and we\u2019ll end up with 40% tariffs on all our exports.\u201d<\/p>\n

French MEP Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, who coordinates Renew in the committee, considers too that \u201cthere is a widespread feeling that we [the EU] failed to put any real leverage on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&nbspPeggy Corlin&nbsp&&nbspVincenzo Genovese Published on 03\/09\/2025 – 8:00 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT MEPs are set to complain widely about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2557,1699,20730,1201,554],"class_list":{"0":"post-393853","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-european-commission","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-european-parliament","14":"tag-trade","15":"tag-trump-tariffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115138914486433465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393853","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=393853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}