EU’s game plan for Trump trade war: ‘Hit back fast and hard’
Fool me twice, shame on me — that’s the motto EU countries are going by as they prepare for a high-stakes, massive trade war with Donald Trump if he wins a second term as U.S. president next month.
European leaders learned their lesson during Trump’s first presidency and are more united and determined than ever to face him down, senior diplomats and officials from Brussels and EU capitals said in conversations with POLITICO.
“We will hit back fast and we will hit back hard,” one senior European diplomat said about the EU’s contingency plan for a Trump trade war.
A second senior diplomat from another European country confirmed that EU countries were coordinating their strategy, with the European Commission in the lead. “Brussels has a list that is ready, and they are pretty confident that they can win this trade war,” said the second diplomat. [Continue reading…]