Camille Gijs

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Bartosz Brzezinski |Camille Gijs

BRUSSELS — As the EU prepares to reimpose steep tariffs on Ukrainian farm goods next month, a top Ukrainian lawmaker has issued a blunt warning: The move risks not just economic damage to a war-battered ally, but a loss of trust in Europe itself.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Camille Gijs |Koen Verhelst |Daniel Desrochers |Ari Hawkins

The European Commission has responded to the U.S. administration with a newly tweaked list of concessions it is willing to offer to avert a transatlantic trade war, an EU diplomat and two EU officials told POLITICO on Monday. The new document comes in response to a first letter sent last week by the Donald Trump administration aimed at laying out principles for negotiations — which marked the first concrete engagement from Washington.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Jon Stone |Nicholas Vinocur |Camille Gijs |Sophie Inge

LONDRES — La Grande-Bretagne et l’Union européenne ont conclu lundi un nouveau pacte de défense et de sécurité, dans le cadre d’un vaste “reset” (“réinitialisation” en français) des relations entre Londres et Bruxelles après des années tendues durant le Brexit. Dans cet accord global conclu le jour d’un sommet majeur à Londres, les deux capitales ont également convenu de prolonger de douze ans, jusqu’en 2038, les droits de pêche généreux accordés aux flottes de l’UE dans les eaux britanniques.

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Camille Gijs |Koen Verhelst

BRUSSELS — EU countries warned Thursday that they would reject any trade deal with President Donald Trump that mirrors the U.S. agreement the U.K., firmly opposing a baseline 10 percent tariff as a starting point for negotiations. “If the U.K.-U.S. deal is what the EU gets, the U.S. can expect countermeasures from us,” Swedish Trade Minister Benjamin Dousa said on his way into a meeting of EU trade ministers in Brussels.

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Camille Gijs |Gabriel Gavin

BRUSSELS ―The United States has sent a letter to the European Commission in a first sign it is willing to engage in a negotiated deal with the bloc in their trade war, four EU diplomats told POLITICO. The move, which happened this week, is the first positive concrete engagement from the Donald Trump administration since the two sides paused their wave of retaliatory tariffs.