The European Parliament will vote on Thursday to advance the 2025 transatlantic trade deal agreed between the EU and the US.
Puzder on Monday called on the European Parliament to support the plan, telling POLITICO that it would open up deeper cooperation on energy, technology and AI even as he pledged to reinvent the bloc’s digital rules.
Benifei, who heads the Congressional delegation on US relations, warned that if the US request “becomes a kind of pressure on other issues like the trade plan or energy,” “it will backfire.”
That’s because EU “voters are tired of threats, especially now that they are suffering from rising energy prices linked to the war in the Middle East,” he said.
Oil prices have risen to their highest levels in recent years after the US and Israel launched a war against Iran, leaving European consumers worried about energy prices and inflation.
The Trump administration’s “observance” of EU technology rules “should make us suspicious,” said German Green Alexandra Geese. “(The EU) should stand firm with its laws and start implementing them in a consistent way,” he said in a text message.
