{"id":4069,"date":"2026-05-05T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:44:00","slug":"von-der-leyen-the-european-union-is-ready-for-all-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4069","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen: The European Union is &#8220;ready for all scenarios&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>European Union <\/b>is &#8220;ready for all scenarios&#8221;, European Commission President<b> Ursula von der Leyen said today<b>in the wake of <b>US threats of additional tariff of 25%<\/b> on vehicles imported from the EU.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;The deal is a deal&#8221;<\/b>, she nevertheless recalled during a press conference in <b>Yerevan<\/b>, referring to the trade agreement between the EU and the government <b>Trump<\/b>, which was concluded in July and limited to <b>15%<\/b> the customs duties on European vehicles sold in the United States.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have an agreement and the essence of this <b>agreement<\/b> is <b>fairness<\/b>, common rules and <b>reliability<\/b>,&#8221; he also said, recalling that the United States is committed to respecting the limits set in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <b>Donald Trump<\/b> threatened the European coalition with new additional customs <b>tariffs<\/b> on <b>automobiles<\/b> and <b>trucks<\/b> exported to the United States, accusing the EU of not respecting the trade deal signed between the two sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>European trade commissioner <b>Maros Sefchowitz<\/b> is due to meet today in Paris with White House trade representative Jamison Greer on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) most developed industrialised countries in the French capital.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Monday, the E<b>European Commission<\/b> reaffirmed its willingness to implement the signed agreement, rejecting US accusations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been implementing the agreement from day one and remain fully committed to respecting our commitments,&#8221; said commission spokesman <b>Toma Renier.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament approved <b>conditionally<\/b>the agreement between the United States and the EU, but the coalition&#8217;s internal procedures stipulate that the agreement must also be negotiated with member states before it can be formally implemented.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rainier, the EU has kept Washington <b>&#8220;fully informed throughout the process&#8221; and sought to &#8220;reassure the other side of the Atlantic, the work is progressing. Progress is being made.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union is &#8220;ready for all scenarios&#8221;, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today, following the US &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}