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Posted on 07/28/2025 10:15:53 AM PDT by RandFan
French Prime Minister François Bayrou is criticizing the trade deal struck by President Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as an act of “submission” by the European Union (EU).
“It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, united to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” Bayrou said in a post on social platform X early Monday.
The agreement sets tariffs at 15 percent for European imports, including automobiles. That’s lower than the 30 percent tariff Trump had threatened to impose on the EU but higher than some European officials would have liked to see — especially after decades of enjoying low single-digit tariffs for most exports to the U.S.
As part of the deal, the EU pledged to purchase $750 billion worth of energy from the U.S. and agreed to invest in the U.S. by $600 billion more than the current investments for other goods.
French President Emmanuel Macron has not commented publicly on the deal, but other French officials have joined Bayrou in attacking it as unbalanced.
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I’d love to know what the French tariffs and other import restrictions have been historically. Cheese-eating surrender monkeys that they are.
The French know about “submission”.
Macron is going way off base on everything...Tariffs, Palestine (no such thing)
Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees? Because the Germans like to march in the shade.
Calm down, François, we’re talking about tariff negotiations, not sending Jews to the gas chamber. Europe and the US have continuously been negotiating tariffs with each other for over 100 years. In this round, the US happened to get the better of the EU.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou is criticizing the trade deal struck by President Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as an act of “submission” by the European Union (EU).
Warum haben die Franzsosen die Champs Elysee mit Bäume gegrenzt? So daß die Deutsche Soldaten im Schatten marschieren können.
The joke is much better told auf Deutsch.
Isn’t ‘submission’ France’s national motto?
Submission? Does this frog eater not know that the arabic word for submission is “islam”?
That’s the price France and all member states must pay for being in the EU
Unbalanced how? It’s equal.
Maybe France could withdraw from the EU if she doesn’t care for submission.
The French complaining about the EU being submissive to Trump?
I hope they got permission from The Grand Mufti of Paris to say that.
All the right people are whining about it. That’s how you know Trump got a good deal for America.
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