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.
“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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