Juncker Hopes EU-U.S. Trade Truce Survives Trump Twitter Twitch

April 9, 2019, 2:30 PM UTC

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said less is more when it comes to the delicate trans-Atlantic trade truce and U.S. President Donald Trump’s social-media habits.

Amid signs of fresh EU-U.S. commercial tensions, Juncker said Trump’s penchant for using Twitter to make surprise announcements risks putting a July 2018 cease-fire — halting threatened tariffs against European cars — a key stroke away from being broken.

Jean-Claude Juncker
Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg

“I hope the provisional end of the trade war between Europe and the U.S. will also withstand the Twitter energy of the White House,” he told a conference in Brussels. “That is important.”

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