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Trump meets Syria’s temporary president Al-Sharaa

Trump meets head of state on his trip in the Middle East. According to the United States, the tariffs harm more than the EU. All developments in the news blog.

On the sidelines of his visit to Saudi Arabia, US President Donald Trump met the Syrian temporary president Ahmed al-Schaara. As the White House announced, he asked Al-Schaara at the meeting on Wednesday in Riad to normalize relationships with Israel, to show Palestinian “terrorists” and to take control of internment camps in northeastern Syria, in which fighters of the jihadist militia “Islamic State” (IS) are held.

In front of a larger meeting with representatives of the Gulf States, which was merged in the Golf Cooperation Council, Trump and Al-Sharaa spoke together for about half an hour. It was the first encounter between a US president and a Syrian head of state in 25 years. Most recently, the then US President Bill Clinton met Hafis al-Assad in 2000, the father of the Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, who had fallen in December.

Economists from Germany and France are calling on the EU to increasingly rely on free trade agreements with other economic areas given the customs dispute with the USA. In a statement by the French “Conseil d’Aleysis Économique” and the Franco-German Council of Economic experts, the EU must take on a leading role in the defense of the global trade regulations. This is necessary to minimize the economic costs of the US tariffs for the European economies.

According to the experts’ calculations, the US tariffs meet the United States harder than the EU. The expected decline in real production in the United States is between 1.0 and 1.63 percent, while the EU countries have to expect only about 0.15 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). In a second scenario that takes into account even higher US tariffs, the EU would record a decline in production of 0.22 to 0.33 percent-significantly less than the USA.

Some US media compare the supporters of President Donald Trump with cheerleaders. But the cheering calls of his fans mix unusually sharp tones on Wednesday. There is talk of disappointment, of “dodgy stories”, even of “bribery”. With a gifted luxury pilot from Qatar, Trump herself had loyal supporters. Read more about this here.

Robert de Niro heralded the film festival in Cannes with a clear criticism of Donald Trump. The 81-year-old sends a signal to Hollywood, which recently held back with political statements. On the stage of the Festival Palace, he criticized the announcement by the US President that she wanted to raise tariffs on films produced abroad.

In his acceptance speech, de Niro described the US President as Banausen and called on the audience to be politically defensive. “In my country, we fight with all its might for democracy that we once took a matter of course,” said the two-time Oscar winner.

He continued: “In art you welcomed diversity. And that’s why art is a threat to autocrats and fascists. America’s Philistian President has appointed himself as head of one of our most important cultural institutions. He has reduced the means and support for the arts, humanities and education. And now he has announced a 100 percent customs on films produced outside the US Do not take it with a price, but apparently you can take it with a customs.

In President Biden’s term, there were repeated reports on his alleged intellectual dismantling. A new book is now going into detail: We are talking about covering. Read more about this here.