Reuters reports comments from the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on the US-EU trade spat, as he speaks just a day before the European Commission talks with Washington on the issue.
Key Quotes:
“It is good that Jean-Claude Juncker will be in Washington tomorrow to talk and to seek a solution but we are not heading to negotiations with a pistol at our chest. I don’t think threats bring us closer to a solution.”
“We in Europe must stick together…I hope that we succeed in resolving this via consensus but we will not be threatened and climb down so easily.”
“In the end, all sides would lose, also the Americans.”
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