For trade negotiations between the EU and the US, for the angry reaction of Donald Trump Due to the recent Russian missile attacks on Ukraine but also about his wife’s slap, the French president spoke today (26.05.2025) Emmanuel Macron.
Initially, Emmanuel Macron said he was “confident” on the issue of trade between the EU and the US, following the announcement by Donald Trump that the suspension of duties on target the EU is extended until July 9.
“I am sure” (regarding the positive outcome of the issue) he told reporters from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, where he began his tour of Southeast Asia countries.
“The discussions are going well, there has been a good exchange of views between President Trump and President [της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής] Ursula von der Layen and I hope we can continue on this road, which must lead us to come back to the lowest possible duties, “he said.
“We believe that commercial imbalances, when present, are not settled by duties,” he said. Donald Trump said on Friday that “seeks agreement ‘for trade with the European Union and threatened to impose 50% customs duties on imports from the “27” from June 1st.
The European Commission, which is negotiating trade agreements on the part of the EU, reacted immediately demanding respect for Washington.
European Commission President Ursula von der Laien announced yesterday, Sunday that he had a “good telephone conversation” with Donald Trump, who confirmed that There will be suspension by July 9, 2025 on tariff tariffs on the EU.
“Trump’s rage to become sanctions in Russia”
The French president also expressed hope that The “anger” of his American counterpart against Russia will “translate into acts”mainly the threat to ‘Mass’ American -European sanctionsafter a savvystocyst of Russian killings against Ukraine.
The US president, who wanted to put an end to the war in Ukraine quickly, He accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of being “completely crazy”.
“The president Trump realizes that when President Putin told the phone that it was ready for the peace, or when he told his envoys that he was ready for Peace, he lied to them“, Emmanuel Macron told reporters from Hanoi.
“We have seen in the last few hours, once again, expressing the anger of Donald Trump. A kind of impatience. I just hope now, translated into actions, “he added. “Repeatedly”, in the past, the American leader “criticized, condemned the blows,” the French president said.
“Here, I hope that this rage he has expressed, which we share, will be translated into a US capacity, along with Europeans, to threaten with a pack of sanctions completely different and more massivewhich will allow Russia to prevent and eventually stop the conflict, “he insisted.
«This is the credibility of the US“Macron, who said he spoke with Donald Trump.
Many European leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, went to Kiev on May 10, 2025 and put an ultimatum in Russia, in coordination with Washington, to accept an immediate ceasefire while they had already threatened to impose “mass sanctions”.
However, Moscow rejected this request and opened the door to direct negotiations with Ukraine which have not yet made any progress. The French president re -in favor of renewing the telegraph today.
The “priority” is “to give a deadline to President Putin, everybody is able to find that he is lying” when he says he wants peace, “and that beyond this deadline”, there will be “threat to mass sanctions,” he explained.
Denied the fight
Emmanuel Macron also denied that had a ‘family quarrel’ with his wife Following a video that went viral on the internet on arrival in Vietnam.
He made it clear that the couple were “joking” with each other and called on “everyone to relax” about the interpretations of these images.
«We were joking with my wife as someone does it quite often. For three weeks, are some who saw videos and think I shared a cocaine sachetthat I had a handshake with a Turkish president, and here, now, I have a family fight with my wife. None of this is true (…) so everyone has to relax, ”he said characteristically.