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EU apparently wants to accommodate Trump in the customs dispute
Updated on May 1st, 2025 – 9:56 p.m.Reading time: 8 min.
The EU trade commissioner Will Washington will make an offer. The US President tightens the tone towards Iran. All developments in the news blog.
According to a media report, the EU wants to offer the United States in the trade dispute to buy 50 billion euros more in American goods. This should be addressed in the trade relationship, quotes the “Financial Times” commissioner Maroš Šefčovič.
There are “certain progress” in the talks about an agreement. According to Šefčovič, the EU would not see it as a fair outcome of the negotiations if the US government would maintain its tariffs from ten percent to European goods.
US President Donald Trump now wants to occupy all buyers of Iranian oil with sanctions. Iran’s oil customers, be it people or countries, should no longer do business with the United States, Trump explained on his Truth Social platform.
The largest buyer of Iranian oil by far is China with which the US government is in a trade conflict. Trump recently imposed tariffs of 145 percent on imports from China. There are exceptions for high-tech products such as smartphones.
Trump, too, recently tightened to Iran. His government is currently negotiating with the Islamist rulers in Tehran about a new nuclear agreement. The country has recently accelerated the enrichment of uranium. Opponents of the regime assume Tehran to strive for the construction of an atomic bomb. Israel in particular is pushing for a hard attitude towards Iran. At an appointment in the White House, Trump said that the new sanctions should help bring Iran into a situation in which Tehran was willing to enter into a deal.
Donald Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz is to become a new American ambassador for the United Nations. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio should put on his previous post in the White House, Trump wrote Trump on his online language tube Truth Social. Previously, several US media had reported that the Waltz, which was involved in the signal affair, was released as a security consultant. Read the whole article here.
The deportation of hundreds of people from the USA to El Salvador was “illegal” in the opinion of a US federal judge and has to end. Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. came to this conclusion on Thursday, as the US portal “Politico” reports.
“Members of the government cannot rely on the Alien Enemies Act to capture Venezuelan citizens in the United States, to move them or to bring them out of the country,” quotes “Politico” from the judgment. The government’s actions are not covered by the law and is therefore “illegal”. The Trump government has not yet responded to the judgment. The US government has so far ignored other judges’ sayings in the matter.
