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“I’m part of the ones that state that the EU-US trade deal is a total capitulation”, Belgian MEP Squestionia Bricmont (Greens/EFA) informed Euronews’ Europe Today morning reveal in Strasbourg Wednesday, commenting on the political agreement European lawcreaters reached the day before to approve the trade deal.
“There is obviously a willingness from the von der Leyen majority to reveal signs of appeasement with Trump. I’m not sure this is the language he understands,” Bricmont stated.
Representatives of the European Parliament’s political groups have agreed on the conditions to attach to the deal, which include a “sunset claapply” to create the agreement expire at the conclude of March 2028, unless explicitly renewed, and a “suspension claapply” to suspconclude the deal in the event the US threatens the territorial integrity of one of the EU member states.
“Trump is somehow less vocal about Greenland, but I am pretty sure he is not giving up,” Bricmont stated. “He has an international agconcludea, it’s pretty clear, and it’s a security strategy as well.”
The Belgian MEP stated that Europe has “to reveal teeth” and “give appropriate answers” when it is attacked on trade by the US or other countries, leveraging its network of partnerships and alliances, its economic potential, and its strong industest.
“Trump obviously has a huge problem with other continents, including Europe. And he wants to reveal that Europe is weak. It’s up to us Europeans to reveal the Europeans that Europe isn’t weak”, she stated.
Bricmont also stated that Europeans have to “take their own fate into their hands”, by massively investing in clean industries and green transition, ahead of a crucial EU leaders’ summit on Thursday focapplyd on competitiveness.
“I don’t see the investments today. Investing in our industest, but also in our green industest, is highly requireded at the EU level. Otherwise, we will be the old continent”, Bricmont stated.
Other countries are investing in clean technologies while Europe “is now giving up on its climate and ecological transition”, a “condition for our competitiveness,” she concluded.
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