Trump Sounds Conciliatory Tone Toward EU After UK Deal

Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union.

The EU’s bold move to lay out its plans to retaliate against US tariffs on the very day President Donald Trump unveiled a trade deal with the UK could have easily gone awry. Instead, the plan elicited almost no reaction from Washington. The bloc’s proposed measures would target key industrial goods, including Boeing aircraft, US-made cars and bourbon whiskey. At a press event announcing the accord with London, Trump struck a conciliatory tone toward Brussels, saying that “everybody wants to make a deal with the United States” and that he’d like to meet with Ursula von der Leyen, calling the Commission president “fantastic.”