The European Parliament put the trade agreement between the EU and the USA on hold

The European Parliament suspended work on the approval of the EU-US trade agreement due to the latest tariff threats of the American leader Donald Trump against a number of EU members.

Source: this was announced by the head of the trade committee of the European Parliament, representative of the Social Democrats faction, Bernd Lange, in his X, reports “European Truth”

Details: “It’s now official: the EU-US agreement is on hold until further notice. Our negotiating team has just decided to suspend the work of the committee on the legal implementation of the Thornbury agreement,” Lange said.

“Our sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake. “Business as usual” is no longer possible,” the MEP added.

Before that, the leaders of the largest groups of the European Parliament declared the necessity pause approval of the EU trade agreement with the USA due to Trump’s tariff threats to a number of European countries for their position on Greenland.

In addition, Trump has taken to threatening France with giant tariffs on champagne over its expected refusal to join the Peace Council he is creating.

We will remind, on July 27, the USA and the EU announced the conclusion of a framework trade agreementwhich fixed tariffs on European imports to the US at the level of 15%.

Reaction European capitals it was ambiguous, from the European Parliament as well there was criticism for excessive EU concessions.

Before that, the US threatened 30% tariffs on European goods, while the EU hoped to keep the main tariff rate at 10%.

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