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EU leaders search for a strategy, as Trump undermines the rule-based multilateral system (Photo: European Commission)

EU seeks unity as trade war with US begins

The EU said on Thursday (31 May) it would retaliate against steel and aluminium tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump, in what could be the opening shots of a transatlantic trade war.

European officials had been in contact with Washington in recent days to try secure a permanent and unconditional exemption from the tariffs that the US had threatened to impose.

The US did it citing national security concerns, which one EU official said was an illegal argument.

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

EU leaders search for a strategy, as Trump undermines the rule-based multilateral system (Photo: European Commission)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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