Foreign minister Szijjártó slams Brussels as ‘incompetent’ for failing to match US tariffs
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said decision makers in Brussels were “incompetent” and “spineless” for failing to address President Donald Trump’s “fair and reciprocal” trade measures in a post on social media on Thursday.
Szijjártó said the European Union should have reduced its tariff on cars made in the United States from 10pc to 2.5pc, level with the US tariff on cars manufactured in Europe. “It would have been simple, but they didn’t do it,” he added.
After isolating Europe from the Chinese economy, the von der Leyen Commission has isolated it from the American economy, too, Szijjártó said, noting the negative economic impact of punitive tariffs on Chinese EVs. Szijjártó said Hungary was continuing bilateral talks with the US administration to achieve a Hungarian-US economic cooperation of an unprecedented scale in the coming months. “What Brussels has ruined, we need to correct in Budapest,” he added.
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