The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, will travel to Washington on 25 July to try to convince the American President, Donald Trump, to give up on the idea of raising tariffs on imports of cars and to ease transatlantic trade tensions, but not to negotiate, the Commission and member states agreed at a meeting of the ambassadors of the Twenty-Eight (Coreper) on Wednesday 18 July, according to a source close to the dossier.
“Juncker is not going to Washington to...