The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der leyenwill fly to Scotland on Sunday where he will meet the President of the United States, Donald Trump. It will be the first official bilateral. They will obviously talk about commercial relations and many expect that they will initiate an agreement that establishes a basic duty for European products at 15%. More sectoral details that have not been clearly defined so far. However, nobody unbuttoned. Not even the American president who, before departure towards the United Kingdom, said that there is “a 50-50, perhaps even less, of the possibility of reaching a commercial agreement with the European Union”. Von der Leyen gave the news of the meeting.
“After a good phone call with the President of the United States, we decided to meet in Scotland on Sunday to discuss transatlantic commercial relations and how we can keep them strong,” he wrote on X. From the Berlaymont palace explained that the meeting takes place on Trump’s “invitation”.
At the meeting of the EU Ambassadors on Wednesday, the European Commission had put the last proposal on the table, the one that seems to have a chance to be accepted by both sides: A generalized duty on European goods that enter the United States of 15%, which however also includes current duties which are an average of 4.8%. It would be – explain EU officials – a sort of freezing of current 10%. 15% would also be worth cars and components (now at 27.5%) and there would be exemptions for some sectors, such as planes, alcohol and pharmaceutical.
In the meantime, however, the EU has carried on its track policy: on the one hand the negotiations; On the other, the countermeasures to respond in the event of a ‘no deal’ by August 1st. The twenty -seven gave the go -ahead to a package of counter -fans for a total of 93 billion euros that remain suspended until August 7 but which would possibly enter into force in Scaglioni, between August, September and February.