Tariff tensions: Avoiding an EU-US trade war

This week Mark Leonard welcomes Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, associate senior policy fellow at ECFR and a fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution in Washington, to discuss a recent policy brief for ECFR, authored alongside Evren Balta, professor of ...  Show more

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Jana Kobzova, co-director of ECFR’s European Security programme, to discuss the mounting pressures facing Ukraine as it enters another wartime winter. Despite Ukraine’s success in disrupting Russian logistics and energy infrastructure, Russia ...  Show more

US President Donald Trump is threatening to impose 50% tariffs on European Union imports starting June 1st. The EU says it stands ready to defend its interests. But is Trump genuinely seeking a deal with the European Union? And is Europe about to pay a high price for not settling ...  Show more

In just a few weeks, the Trump administration has taken a hard line with allies such as Mexico and Canada. Now, a trade war is on the horizon with Europe.

Mark Landler, the London bureau chief of The New York Times, explains how a fracturing alliance with Europe could af ...

Trump is finally facing some resistance. Can Europe seize the moment? This week on EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton speaks with Swedish Member of the European Parliament Karin Karlsbro, just back from Washington, about how Brussels is reading the room in D.C. — and whether the ...  Show more

Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: (1) The European Union says it will respond to any tariffs the US might impose on it. The warning comes after President Trump pushed forward with his pledge to place a 25% tariff on all US s ...  Show more