With populist leaders on the back foot and EU support at its highest in years, the US trade war could be an opportunity for the union<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has unleashed a trade war on the world, and Europe, considered by Washington to be among the \u201cworst offenders<\/a>\u201d, is a major target. <\/strong>After hitting European steel, aluminium and cars, this week Trump announced sweeping 20% tariffs on almost all EU imports. Europeans have seen this coming for a long time. Well before his re-election, officials in Brussels were drawing up plans on how the EU might respond to Trump 2.0 and a possible transatlantic trade war.<\/p>\n What might the political fallout in Europe be? The good news is that Trump\u2019s trade war puts Trump-friendly far-right forces in Europe in a terribly uncomfortable position. It\u2019s one thing for the European far right to support Trump in principle, or to support the administration\u2019s tyranny over peoples it doesn\u2019t care about, be it Ukrainians, Canadians, Mexicans or Palestinians. It\u2019s quite another to defend Trump and his policies when the victims are countries that these far-right parties supposedly represent.<\/p>\n Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With populist leaders on the back foot and EU support at its highest in years, the US trade war could be an opportunity for the union Donald Trump has unleashed a trade war on the world, and Europe, considered by Washington to be among the \u201cworst offenders\u201d, is a major target. After hitting European steel, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}