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Europeans Bridle at Von der Leyen's Submission to Trump

Financial Times reported that “the backlash [to the U.S.-EU tariff deal] from Germany and France was swift. France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou said the deal marked a ‘dark day’ and that the EU had ‘resigned itself into submission.’ German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the agreement would cause ‘considerable damage.’” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said: “Donald Trump ate Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast.”

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