The French Prime Minister says that the US trade in the EU deals with a “dark day” for Europe

Paris: One day after the EU and the United States concluded a trade agreement on Sunday, the French government was released against the agreement, calling for pricing reprisals and warning that Europe would be politically weakened if it did not retaliate. “It is a dark day where a alliance of free peoples, gathered to assert their values and defend their interests, resolves to submit,” wrote Prime Minister François Bayrou on X on the agreement, which imposes 15% prices for European imports in the United States, but reduces barriers in European countries for American imports.

France had led an accusation in Europe to retaliate against the United States before the agreement, after a previous threat from Trump to impose a rate punishing 30% on Europeans. Benjamin Haddad, French minister in charge of European affairs, suggested that Trump’s trade agreement was a predatory tactic and called for Europe to activate an anti-coercion instrument to tax American digital services, or to exclude American technological companies from public contracts in Europe.Despite France’s push to other European countries to take a more difficult line, the majority of European countries had quickly wanted an agreement. “I am 100% sure that this agreement is better than a trade war with the United States,” journalists told the EU commercial negotiator, Maros Sefcovic. The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, welcomed the agreement too much. “The agreement has succeeded in avoiding a trade conflict which would have reached the German economy oriented towards export harshly,” said Merz in a statement late Sunday. “This allowed us to protect our fundamental interests... ” “I consider it to have an agreement …”, told Meloni to journalists on the sidelines of a meeting in Addis Ababa on Sunday.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a Trump ally, also falsified the agreement. Call him a failure on the part of the management of Europe. Orban said. “Trump ate (president of the European Commission) Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast, that’s what happened.”