The United States has fired the first warning shots at the EU's next trade commissioner before he's even taken office
The United States has fired the first warning shots at the EU's next trade commissioner before he's even taken office.
Hogan, the current European agriculture commissioner who is slated to take over the trade portfolio on November 1,last week he would do everything he could “to get Mr. Trump to see the error of his ways” on trade. The veteran Irish politician said he hopes the U.S. president will “abandon some of the reckless behavior that we have seen from him in relation to his relationship with China and describing the European Union as a security risk.
Sondland said he expects any future EU trade commissioner to vigorously advocate on the bloc's behalf but added: “I don't think you want someone handling the EU trade portfolio whose sole approach is belligerence, because that just results in an impasse, a stalemate and then people start to do things that you don't want them to do.”
Sondland's interview came just a day before major news broke on the trade transatlantic trade front — POLITICO reported that thein a long-running dispute over subsidies to Airbus.
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