Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk revealed the bloc needed to be “very progressive … typically perhaps unpredictable — as our pals from the opposite facet of Atlantic.”
Poland at the moment holds the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. And Tusk, a former European Council president, is a veteran of Brexit negotiations, having chaired late-night summits in Brussels in an try and get a cope with the U.Ok. on its divorce from the bloc. He could not resist crowing about giving Trump a style of his personal drugs.

“I believe all of us are privy to this new technique learn how to negotiate and learn how to discuss commerce and different communications,” Tusk stated, clearly referring to Trump’s disruptive techniques. The U.S. is one in every of Europe’s closest companions, he famous, “however we have to be much like our companions in some sense.”
Von der Leyen’s concept received public endorsement from Europe’s strongest chief, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “If the WTO is as dysfunctional because it has been for years and apparently stays so, then we, who proceed to think about free commerce necessary, should give you one thing else,” he stated.
However the fact is, von der Leyen’s proposal could finally show solely a brief distraction from what threatens to be a significant defeat, when an settlement with Trump is lastly unveiled.
On the summit, European leaders grimly digested the information of a contemporary proposal from the U.S. for additional negotiations, POLITICO was first to reveal.