European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s visit to the US and meeting with Trump is an highly anticipated event today. Ahead of that Trump continued to play victim with his provocational tweets and said “tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that – and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great!”
And he added later that “the European Union is coming to Washington tomorrow to negotiate a deal on Trade. I have an idea for them. Both the U.S. and the E.U. drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies! That would finally be called Free Market and Fair Trade! Hope they do it, we are ready – but they won’t!
According to European Union trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, who’s in the visit too, the meeting is to seek to ” de-escalate the present situation and prevent it from worsening”. Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said yesterday that ” there are no offers.”
