But Ferracci argued that such a visit risks playing into Trump’s strategy, which the French minister claimed is aimed at preventing a united European response to the U.S. president’s severe tariff regime that has brought the world to the brink of an all-out trade war.<\/p>\n
Trump imposed huge 20 percent tariffs on the European Union that took effect Wednesday, but by the evening he had announced a temporary pause<\/a>\u00a0in tariffs above 10 percent for most U.S. trading partners. On the same day, the bloc’s 27 countries agreed to apply retaliatory tariffs<\/a> on nearly \u20ac21 billion of U.S. products like soybeans, motorcycles and orange juice.<\/p>\n Italy\u2019s Europe minister, Tommaso Foti, was quick to react on Wednesday, accusing France of being hypocritical.<\/p>\n “How come when President Macron goes to Washington everything is OK, but when it is Meloni who goes, things are not OK?\u201d he said, according to Italian media.<\/p>\n In a separate interview with French public television, Europe Minister Benjamin Haddad also stressed that Europe’s strength lies in its unity in response to a question about Meloni’s visit.<\/p>\n “If you go to the United States scattered and divided, do you think you’re stronger than if you go all 27, with 450 million people?” the French minister asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Ferracci argued that such a visit risks playing into Trump’s strategy, which the French minister claimed is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1393,6715,32,2000,299,36,2440,806,2199,6716,479,1201,1219,6717,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-9904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-anti-coercion-instrument","9":"tag-benjamin-haddad","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-giorgia-meloni","15":"tag-industry","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-marc-ferracci","18":"tag-tariffs","19":"tag-trade","20":"tag-trade-war","21":"tag-transatlantic-relations","22":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114317537237172929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904","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=9904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}