How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller https://t.co/GIe6sgdzAa

— Financial Times (@FT) July 27, 2025

🧵 The EU-US trade deal is objectively bad for the EU, possibly even terrible.

It's a deal that, despite its name, makes trade more expensive and unattractive. Most EU products will be subject to a whooping 15% tariff, tripling the 4.8% average rate before Trump's second term. pic.twitter.com/68RR2pkstf

— Jorge Liboreiro (@JorgeLiboreiro) July 27, 2025

What I worried about has happened. A completely unequal “deal” between the US and the EU. Have no doubt: asymmetric 15% tariffs are a EU defeat.
When the law of the jungle prevails, the weak have little choice than to accept their fate. But Europe could potentially have been…

— Olivier Blanchard (@ojblanchard1) July 27, 2025

The EU – US deal is scandalous… a disaster…with not one concession from the American side…badly negotiated…

— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) July 27, 2025

I agree with @ojblanchard1
The short-term economic costs of the deal with Trump are manageable for Germany and the EU, but there is no reason to cheer this trade policy appeasement. The higher costs will come later. 1/2 https://t.co/blnvNydqW8

— Moritz Schularick (@MSchularick) July 27, 2025

The trade deal is a humiliation for the EU, but it reflects the imbalance of power. The Europeans need to wake up, focus more on economic strength and reduce their military and technological dependence on the US. Then they can renegotiate.

— Clemens Fuest (@FuestClemens) July 27, 2025

Ursula von der Leyen surrendered to Donald Trump with no fight whatsoever, and has made us a junior partner to the USA.

She is unfit for the position of President of the European Commission and she has to go.@RenewEurope @EPPGroup @TheProgressives @GreensEFA https://t.co/5SDAkvVF3z

— Julien Hoez (@JulienHoez) July 27, 2025

It’s increasingly clear that @vonderleyen is a useful idiot promoted in Europe by the American security establishment. A no-hoper politician, the Americans use her stupidity and war obsessions to take advantage of Europe and rip the continent off. Europe are suckers. 🇪🇺🤖 https://t.co/USsixmkRyp

— Philip Pilkington (@philippilk) July 28, 2025