France's Prime Minister François Bayrou says on Monday that the union has resigned and submitted to the USA, reports The Financial Times.
Also leaders of the extreme right in France and Germany criticize the agreement, which means that goods exported from the EU to the USA will be affected by a tariff of 15 percent, and say that the union has exposed its weakness.
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the right-wing extremist party AFD, wrote on the media platform X that the agreement ”was not an agreement, but a slap in the face for European consumers and producers!”
Germany's industry association BDI warns that the agreement is ”an insufficient compromise”.
The EU's chief negotiator Maros Sefcovic defends the agreement and said that it was ”the best we could get under very difficult conditions".
I am 100 percent sure that this agreement is better than a trade war with the USA, said Sefcovic to journalists on Monday.
