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The US president added that he “can do anything I want” with Brussels’ $600 billion worth of pledged investments
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250805165341/https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/trump-threatens-eu-with-35-tariff-if-investment-pledge-falls-through/
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There was no pledge. That number is all private investment that the EU has no control over, and most of it probably won’t happen precisely because Trump’s tariffs have made investing in the US impossible.
We are shooting ourselves in the foot