Under-fire EU says trade deal with Trump was best it could do – POLITICO

Brussels says it struck the best trade deal it could with Washington — even if Paris and other European capitals aren’t buying it. 

In a last-ditch effort to fend off Donald Trump’s threat to raise tariffs on most EU goods to 30 percent on Aug. 1, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday flew with her negotiating team to the U.S. president’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland and, in about an hour, locked down a preliminary deal. 

“This is clearly the best deal we could get under very difficult circumstances,” EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič said Monday.