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Former European Commission chief Jean-Kloud Junkar has criticized his successor, Ursula von Der Leyen, who is individually not individually attached to Donald Trump’s trade war.

“I think the Commission would have been given better advice to try to try a meeting better, as it was predicted that it would come back [trade] The issue, ”Junkar told the Financial Times.

He said, “There will be no deal without the active presence of the President of the Commission,” he said that speaking in five floors in his Brussels office below. Von deer leyen‘S.

This year the US President worked again Tariff On the Steel and Aluminum of the European Union, which he introduced in his first term and who was suspended in 2018, promising that the block would buy more American gas and soybeans. Trump has threatened to put a 50 percent levy on all the European Union imports, if the current trade talks with Brussels fails by 9 July.

Junkar said that he saw Trump at least seven times before sealing the deal in 2018.

In contrast, Von Der Leyen has not held a dedicated bilateral meeting to discuss the trade dispute, instead only Trump is speaking only to international programs such as Pope Francis’ funeral in April or the World Economic Forum in Davos in January. She is attending a G7 summit in Canada on Monday, in which Trump is also attending, but the officials in Brussels were uncertain whether they would discuss trade on the shore.

Junkar admitted that it was “more difficult” for von Der Leyen because Trump’s enmity towards Europe is more clear and he travels less abroad than his first term. Junkar said that it was a mistake to hand over the talks to the trade commissioner Maroš šefčovič.

Luxembourg Premier said, “Trump” seems to me more or less the same “. But the US President was now publicly saying what he was accusing behind the first closed doors, as such that it is alleged that the European Union was established to” Screw “the European Union.

Junkar said that in his strategy, the Commission officials had quickly revolted to quickly revolt to rebel on their danger to keep the levy of 200 percent on European liquor and souls, by promising to implement a ventilative tariff on € 26BN price US goods, to implement a ventilative tariff. In the end the Commission dropped us from its list of whiskey and other items, which targeted only € 21BN’s US exports and whose implementation has also been suspended for pending negotiations.

“I don’t know that it is a sign of weakness, but it is a sign of poor preparation as these special restrictions can be replaced by others as the same purpose,” Junkar said.

On the contrary, Junkar recalled that he had a list of states governed by Republican Governors and so I wanted to kill them where his colleagues in America would not be happy. He put him in difficulty. And it was successful. “

European Union officials say they are working on the list of US goods of € 95BN value, as dialogue fails in the case, although they believe it is also likely to be less by national lobbying.

Brussels have tried to copy the successful proposal of Junkar to reduce trade deficit by purchasing more American goods, but this time the Trump administration has not made much impact.

While the commission officials cannot buy goods directly, Junkar said that “here and other places were in touch with the market players, they told them that they should try, and they did”.

Soya Bean Import “has increased by 418 percent during six months after the agreement”, he said.

Asked how to treat Trump, he said that you should “respect them” and “should talk to them politely, not the way he is talking to you”.

However, leaders should stand for their interests. “He respects you if you are not on your knees. I feel that European governments want to make him happy.”

Junkar recalled that Trump called him a “cruel killer” and a “strict man”. “You have to respect him because you need his honor.”

The US President called Von Der Leyen “luxurious” after briefly met him in Rome at the Pope’s funeral. But the conversation has been halted since then and Trump has threatened to impose 50 percent tariff instead of 20 percent, alleging “slow walk” in talks.