US-Europe relations

Trump gives EU until Jul 4 to ratify trade deal with US or face ‘much higher’ tariffs

The announcement comes after the EU fails to finalise its long-delayed trade deal during overnight talks

European Union lawmakers are now negotiating with capitals over final amendments to the trade agreement, including a potential expiry date.

US to adopt 25% car levy soon unless EU clears trade deal

President Donald Trump is accusing the bloc of taking too long to ratify the agreement

The drawdown comes after Trump's spat with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has questioned Washington’s exit strategy in the Middle East.

Trump’s planned US troop drawdown from Germany questioned by allies at home, in Nato

Nato said it was working with the US to understand the details of the decision

European confidence in American leadership is at an all-time low; more people in Spain, Italy, France and Germany now regard the US as a threat than a “close ally”, a poll shows.
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Are Europe and America headed for divorce?

For now, the two sides remain locked in an unhappy marriage

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been one of Europe’s most vocal critics of US and Israeli military actions in the Middle East in recent weeks.

Spain’s economic endorsement of China is a major Trump rebuke

Could warmer ties between Madrid and Beijing help move EU closer to China?

American companies are increasingly being viewed through a political lens, regardless of sector or corporate behaviour.
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European policymakers are losing faith in American business

The implications extend far beyond the Atlantic

From the Middle East to Greenland, US President Donald Trump’s persistent foreign policy brazenness has sapped the trust of longstanding allies.

Are Asia and Europe at ‘Trump tipping points’?

Developments in Greenland and Iran have fed into a wider reassessment of US power in key Asian and European nations

A garment factory in Ho Chi Minh City. Targets of the US probes include Vietnam, which had the largest trade surplus with the US in January.

US tariff turmoil: Will partners in Asia and Europe break away from their 2025 deals?

For economies already hit by the war in Iran, America’s new ‘unfair trade practices probes’ spell only more trouble

The new cumulative rate means some goods would be above the 15% ceiling that the EU and US agreed to in their trade deal.

EU warns that Trump’s new tariff policy breaks trade agreement

The new global levies can stay in place for as many as 150 days

US-Europe relations are at their most serious rupture in decades, perhaps even the post-war era, the writer notes.

Europe thinks through de-risking from the US

Marco Rubio’s conciliatory speech at the Munich Security Conference does little to distract from Trump’s “wrecking ball politics”