Europe’s Far Right Blasts Trump Trade Deal as Support Wavers

July 29, 2025, 12:56 PM UTC

Europe’s nationalist parties have taken aim at the trade agreement the European Union announced with the US over the weekend, just as mainstream politicians have started expressing their own concerns about the deal.

The EU agreed to accept a 15% tariff on most of its exports, while the bloc’s average tariff rate on American goods should drop below 1% once the deal goes into effect. The bloc’s trade chief, Maros Sefcovic, conceded on Monday that it was “the best deal we could get under very difficult circumstances.”

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