{"id":726773,"date":"2026-01-28T17:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726773\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:27:13","slug":"eu-parliament-eyes-us-trade-deal-approval-with-trump-proof-safeguards-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726773\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament eyes US trade deal approval with Trump-proof safeguards \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are already suspension clauses<strong> <\/strong>in the text, but lawmakers want to include definitions \u2014\u00a0including threats to territorial sovereignty \u2014 to strengthen them. Apart from the sovereignty clause, the definitions should specify that new tariff threats would trigger an automatic suspension of the agreement, said an official from the liberal Renew Europe group.<\/p>\n<p>That could pave the way for a vote on the Parliament\u2019s position to be scheduled for the next meeting of its International Trade Committee on Feb. 23-24. For the EU to implement its side of the bargain, the Parliament and Council of the EU, representing the bloc\u2019s 27 members, would still need to reach a final compromise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be perhaps a date to vote,\u201d Bernd Lange, the chair of the committee, told POLITICO, referring to the Feb. 23-24 meeting. Lange added that outstanding issues \u2014 including whether to schedule a vote on the deal at all \u2014 will be discussed at a meeting of lead negotiators scheduled for Wednesday next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question of safeguard[s] is an important one and will be solved in the proper way,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-us-trade-deal-on-hold-after-new-trump-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">froze ratification of the agreement<\/a>, reached by Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last July, after the U.S. president threatened tariffs on European allies backing Greenland, a self-governing Danish protectorate.<\/p>\n<p>The center-right European People\u2019s Party has pushed to sign off on the deal following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-ratification-us-trade-deal-donald-trump-european-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calls from EU countries to unblock the implementation<\/a> after Trump walked back threats to seize Greenland. But S&amp;D, Renew and the Greens have so far balked, arguing further details are needed on the \u201cframework\u201d deal agreed by Trump with NATO chief Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are already suspension clauses in the text, but lawmakers want to include definitions \u2014\u00a0including threats to territorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1393,31927,6215,365,5293,32,2000,8954,299,5187,805,366,809,811,1218,479,1201,49,1220,209773],"class_list":{"0":"post-726773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-anti-coercion-instrument","9":"tag-bernd-lange","10":"tag-cooperation","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-diplomacy","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-eu-us-trade-talks","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-foreign-policy","19":"tag-greenland","20":"tag-negotiations","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-steel","23":"tag-tariffs","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","27":"tag-zeljana-zovko"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115973904402509756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726773","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=726773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}