EU united against Trump’s tariff threats

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EU leaders have voiced a united front against US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, our correspondent William Denselow reports.  #US #EU #Tariffs

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00:00Well there's been a rather staunch and unified message from many European

00:06leaders. We heard from Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, who said that this

00:11would be a test of EU solidarity. We also heard a very strong message from French

00:18President Emmanuel Macron who said this was an opportunity for the European

00:22Union to stand up for itself. We've also heard from the spokesperson for the

00:28European Commission saying that if indeed Donald Trump goes through with

00:32his threat of duties on EU goods then they will respond firmly. That was a

00:38point very much reiterated by Kai Callas, the EU's top diplomat and foreign

00:42affairs chief. She said that they are working on a response if it's needed. She

00:47said though that there are essentially no winners in a trade war and she

00:51added that China will be the ones laughing if indeed there was to be an

00:56escalation in a trade spat between the EU and the US, two historically close

01:02allies that account for around 1.6 trillion dollars worth of trade every

01:07year, one of the biggest trade partnerships anywhere in the world.

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