On Thursday 27 February, in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25% tariffs on European products, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, said that he was in favour of setting up a “safety net” to deal with “geopolitical shocks” (see EUROPE B13589A2).
“We’ve been hit and we’re going to have to react”, Mr Hansen explained at the Salon de l’Agriculture [Paris Agricultural Show] in Paris.
“The US administration’s approach is...