DONALD TRUMP: 'Look at the millions of cars that EU sales in the United States. Passionately. This will stop!

President Donald Trump sent a barrage of criticism at the expense of Germany and its car sales in the United States at yesterday's meeting with leaders of the European Union

"Germans are bad, very bad," said Trump in a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Council Donald Tusk and other senior officials in Brussels, published by the German newspaper Spiegel in its electronic edition, reports Agence France Presse . "Look at the millions of cars that sell in the US. Passionately. This will stop " , reportedly said Trump, according to people who have" participated in the meeting. "

Juncker then intervened, according to the same sources, and stood up in defense of Germany stating that free trade brings benefits to all. Süddeutsche Zeitung, which published a similar story about Trampov anti-German performance, according to EU officials believe that their American colleagues still do not realize the fact that the EU negotiates trade agreements as a block, and not on the principle of individual countries, reports portal Politico.

Trump has expressed concern to the German-American trade in the past, threatening earlier this year to introduce a tax of 35 percent on imported cars from that country. "If you want to make cars in the world, then I wish you all the best. You pravitiautomobile and the United States, but for every car that enters the United States, you will pay 35 percent tax , "said Trump then the German newspaper Bild. Politico says that the US President in the interview said he would tell the BMW that "if you build a factory in Mexico and plans to sell cars in the United States without the 35 percent tax - then you can forget it."

Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met n the summit Grupe7 (G7) in Taormina, Sicily. No office of German Chancellor nor the White House were not for now advertise on the occasion of these news reports, said France Presse. France agency adds that Trump, after describing his meeting with Merkel in Washington in March as "great", but the next day launched a campaign against Germany, accusing it owes "huge sums of money" to NATO and the United States.

On the other hand, Merkel has urged Trump after his election to support the values of Western democracy after isolationist rhetoric during the presidential campaign, reports France Presse.

• 28 May, 2017
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