quietly softening its stance<\/a> in light of Trump\u2019s trade offensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense to remain fixated on Mercosur, which was negotiated on good terms overall,\u201d said Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, a liberal member of the European Parliament who hails from the same Modem party as Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to change our mindset, otherwise we’ll miss out on the advancement of the world,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The transatlantic trade relationship is Europe\u2019s biggest, with two-way commerce totaling \u20ac1.6 trillion. The U.K., China and Switzerland come next. Although the EU and China have explored whether to reset their ties in light of Trump\u2019s tariffs, a trade deal isn\u2019t in the cards \u2014 and that\u2019s leading the EU to cast its net more widely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTrump\u2019s policy will lead everyone to agree to develop trade relationships with the rest of the world and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1212,1213,186,7907,767,1789,943,22830,1395,6215,32,33,2000,299,5187,1214,36,37,1945,1824,4582,730,8262,7495,1215,1055,22831,2441,22708,2132,809,45,48,1218,3695,812,2600,479,1201,6862,1219,2723,15,49,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-40097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aluminum","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-austria","12":"tag-baltics","13":"tag-belgium","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-ceta","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-cooperation","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-elections","20":"tag-eu","21":"tag-europe","22":"tag-european","23":"tag-exports","24":"tag-france","25":"tag-francois-bayrou","26":"tag-friedrich-merz","27":"tag-germany","28":"tag-human-rights","29":"tag-india","30":"tag-indonesia","31":"tag-jean-luc-demarty","32":"tag-luxembourg","33":"tag-malaysia","34":"tag-marie-pierre-vedrenne","35":"tag-markets","36":"tag-mercosur","37":"tag-mexico","38":"tag-negotiations","39":"tag-playbook","40":"tag-rights","41":"tag-steel","42":"tag-sustainability","43":"tag-sweden","44":"tag-switzerland","45":"tag-tariffs","46":"tag-trade","47":"tag-trade-agreements","48":"tag-trade-war","49":"tag-united-arab-emirates","50":"tag-united-kingdom","51":"tag-united-states","52":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40097","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=40097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}