One month into the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, can the EU and the US find common ground? And what happens if they don’t strike any deal?
Almost one month ago, US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause in imposing additional tariffs on all countries, excluding China. In response, the EU executive put its trade retaliation measures on hold for 90 days "to give negotiations a chance".
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One month into this pause, are talks progressing? What is the EU's tactic? And is it possible no agreement will be found? We put these questions and more to Sven Van Kerckhoven, professor of political economics at Brussels university VUB.
We also head to Strasbourg for the European Parliament’s plenary sessions, which start today and will see MEPs discuss burning topics from just peace in Ukraine to the power outage in Spain and Portugal. And finally, we explore where in Europe workers pay the highest, and lowest, income tax.
This episode of Radio Schuman is hosted and produced by Maïa de la Baume, with journalist and production assistant Lauren Walker. Audio editing by Johan Breton. Music by Alexandre Jas.