Determined to push the US president Donald Trump In order to export the issue of tariffs, European leaders arise. The next day of the agreement announced between Britain and USA -Starmer and Trump-Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Mertz sent a clear message to the US president, seeking zero duties and the end of the “trade war”.

THE Friedrich Mertz He clarified that an agreement with the US on duties cannot be aligned with EU countries, but as a whole, as the Member States of the Union are governed by common commercial rules.

“I congratulated the US president on the agreement that reached the United Kingdom yesterday,” Mertz initially stressed at a joint press conference with the President of the European Council. Antonio Costa During a tour of Brussels on Friday. “This is a good way forward,” added Germanas Kageklarios, sending a message to the other side of the Atlantic in Washington.

German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz stressed to Donald Trump must end his trade war and abolish duties. “I told him that, in my view, the escalation of this customs difference is not a good idea. The best solution would be “zero duties” for everything and for everyone, “he said.

“At least in the short term, I hope we can take steps to reduce existing duties,” Friedrich Mertz added, following a joint line with the European Commission President Ursula von der Layen. “And in the long run to go to a trade agreement,” he said.

Mertz stressed that the EU and the US should have a mutual agreement, something that the Commission has also cited for industrial goods. However, the German Chancellor’s proposal is different from the US agreement with Britain, where 10% was maintained.

Mertz argued that in addition to duties, the EU should provide wide recognition of technical standards due to “great opportunities to open markets”. An example would be the rules for cars.

As he pointed out at the press conference, the German Chancellor made it clear to Donald Trump that “the closest trading partner for the US is not Germany, France or Poland. It is Europe and the European Union. “

Von der Laien: I’ll go to Washington only for agreement

Ursula von der Layen will visit US President Donald Trump in Washington soon – but not before there is a “specific” commercial package that can negotiate between Europe and the United States, he said Friday.

The President of the European Commission agreed with Trump when they met in the Vatican last month that he would visit him soon, although no date was set for the visit.

Asked when she was planning to go, von der Laieni said in a press conference in Brussels: “I think I had a good conversation with Trump on the phone and funeral of the Pope. But for me, it’s important that if I go to the White House, I want to have a package that we can have a package.