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Is Trump pushing his own power to the limit?
Whether he's using the military against protesters in Los Angeles or ignoring clear orders from federal judges, President Donald Trump is shaking the democratic foundations of the United States
"Our talks with them are going nowhere! Therefore, I recommend a direct tariff of 50 percent for the European Union, starting June 1, 2025," wrote US President Donald Trump on the social network Truth Social
President of the United States of America Donald tramp threatened on Friday to introduce tariffs of 50 percent on goods from Of the European Union, and he cited the lack of progress in the ongoing trade negotiations as the reason.
"Their powerful trade barriers, VAT taxes, ridiculous corporate penalties, non-monetary trade barriers, monetary manipulation, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against American companies, and more, have led to the US trade deficit," Trump wrote on the Truth Social social network, reports CNN.
"Our talks with them are going nowhere! Therefore, I recommend a direct tariff of 50 percent for the European Union, starting June 1, 2025," Trump stressed.
No EU reaction
European Commission spokesman Olof Gill declined to comment on Trump's announcement. He says he is waiting for talks to take place between European Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Gill did not specify when Sefcovic and Greer will talk.
Shortly after Trump's announcement, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant told Fox News that "the EU's proposals were not of the same quality as our other important trading partners."
"I'm not going to negotiate on television, but I hope this will shake the EU," Bessent said, adding that "the EU has a problem of collective action."
The tariff Trump is considering imposing on the EU is more than double the 20 percent "reciprocal" tariff that was briefly in place in April before he quickly paused those tariffs to allow for further negotiations.
Whether he's using the military against protesters in Los Angeles or ignoring clear orders from federal judges, President Donald Trump is shaking the democratic foundations of the United States
An Air India passenger plane on a flight to London crashed shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad. There were 230 passengers and 12 crew members on the plane. More than 300 people died in the accident
Ukraine and Russia exchanged another group of sick and seriously wounded soldiers on Thursday (June 12), officials from both countries announced.
According to Professor Noah Feldman, a professor of law at Harvard, the short-term goal of the new American president is to be in the center of media attention as someone who opposes "Harvard liberals", and to intimidate all those in higher education who do not agree with his policies. The longer-term goal is related to his broader attack on democratic values and institutions. The more he is able to weaken independent institutions, the more dominant his political agenda becomes
The life and connections of an American citizen and a Russian poet and a Jew, born 85 years ago, an incomplete elementary school student, a metal apprentice, an assistant pathologist and geologist, a poet who was a victim of an ideological turn and political literary intrigues, he was tried twice, twice placed in an insane asylum, attempted suicide because of love, for parasitism was sentenced to five years of exile with community service, which a tractor driver on the Danilovsky collective farm did not appreciated as well as a song about it, enjoyed respect in the village of Norenska as an exile who rose up, "voluntarily" obtained a visa without the right to return and meet his parents, achieved a university career, won the Nobel Prize, was a poetic pop star, loved by women, loved cats, smoked a lot, died at 56 - and was buried for the second time in Venice, still a little far from Ezra Pound
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