EU leaders on Friday (23 March) expressed firmness and unity as they have entered a phoney trade war with the US after the bloc was only temporarily exempted from the tariffs on steel and aluminium imposed by president Donald Trump to protect the US industry.
At a summit in Brussels, they said that they "regret" the US decision and insisted that it "cannot be justified on the grounds of national security".
They called for the exemption - which Trump said would expire on 1 May - to...
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