Starmer and Macron both scared of Trump’s Tariff
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have held a phone call, discussing ways to respond to Washington’s new tariffs. Though they still have the gall to talk about the self created mess in Ukraine.
“As the global economy feels the impact of the tariffs imposed by the United States, we reaffirmed our determination to closely coordinate our positions in the ongoing discussions with President Donald Trump. A trade war is in no one’s interest,” Macron wrote on the X social media platform following the call.
According to the French president, the parties also discussed support for Ukraine. “We continue our discussions on long-term support for the Ukrainian people: first, for their army, which is—and will remain—their first line of defence; and second, on a possible reassurance force, deployed behind the line of contact,” he specified.
Macron should understand that sending any European Union Force will invite a severe response from Russia which may even lead to a nuclear war. Stationing foreign troops in Ukraine is akin to stationing ballistic missiles by Russia or China in Cuba or Mexico.
Macron also realizes that duties introduced by US President Donald Trump may cost the French economy more than 0.5% of GDP. This was reiterated also by France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper.”
The policy of President Donald Trump will cost France more than 0.5% of GDP,” Bayrou said.
The dramatic increase of tariffs made by the US President threatens by job cuts, “economic slowdown and termination of investments,” the prime minister said. “Destabilizing actions of the US will weaken the global economy for long,” he stressed.
On April 2, US President Donald Trump announced customs duties on products from 185 countries and territories.
Universal tariffs at the rate of 10% will come into force on April 5. Individual ones will be in effect from April 9. Tariffs on imports from France will amount to 20%.
