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von der Leyen: EU opens negotiations on tariffs, but will adopt a “strong confrontation” if necessary

European Commission President Antonio Costa (left) debated with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (right) and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola at the conclusion of the European Council meeting on 20 March 2025 as part of the plenary meeting in the European Parliament on 1 April 2025.

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European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said in a speech Tuesday that the EU is willing to negotiate on tariffs, but will take retaliation if necessary.

“We will accept negotiations. We will do these negotiations from the position of strength. Europe has many brands, from trade to technology to our market size. However, this advantage is also built on our preparation for the company’s anti-measurement if necessary. All tools are on the table.”

Von der Leyen repeatedly stressed that the EU disagrees with the escalation of trade disputes caused by U.S. President Donald Trump, and said that countries should work together to resolve issues such as excessive capacity, imbalances, unfair subsidies, denial of market access and intellectual property theft.

“But today my message is that we have everything we need to protect people and prosper. We have the largest single market in the world, we have the ability to negotiate, we have the ability to back down,” she said.

Von der Leyen said the EU’s other approach to the looming “mutual tariffs” is to strengthen trade relations with other partners and double in its own single market.

– Jenni Reid

European stocks are higher

European stock markets opened on Tuesday, with Stoxx 600 Index up 1% at 8:08 am UK time.

Both the FTSE 100 in the UK and the DAX in Germany were about 1% higher, while the CAC 40 in France rose 0.8%.

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Stoxx 600 index.

Strategists say Trump is thinking about the long term, but is playing “dangerous games.”

President Donald Trump is counting on a long-term rebound in the economy and selling the market through his extreme tariff plans, but he is playing a “dangerous game.”

“The market will take some time to digest what will happen tomorrow, and I don’t think we’ll see the meaning of Trump coming out and offering candy to the market, saying the tariffs will not be as serious as the doubts,” Safra Sarasin Sustable Asset Management’s Equity Strangtics equity Strangity Equitable Asset Management told NebraskaDailyNews’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday.

Trump says reciprocity tariffs will “start from all countries” and refuse to narrow down release

“I think he might keep the temperature high,” Von Rotberg said, adding that this is because of Trump’s experience as president from 2018 to 2019, when the Fed was in a similar phase of a rate hike and cut cycle.

“At that time he broke the back of the cycle, he broke the back of the stock market, but he also brought the action of the Fed, he was better in 2019. He recovered in the 2019 cycle, grew, grew, grew, was great in the third quarter of 2019, had a high consumption rate, and the stock market in April was back… Trump didn’t expect direct impact, but came up with one step, one step after another.

U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order related to the U.S. live entertainment ticketing industry on March 31, 2025 at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.

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“He won’t provide a projection to the market, the only view that he can offer is the Fed, and in order to relax the Fed and relax from where they need to have some shortcomings in the cycle, he may also have to have some shortcomings in the market.”

Wolf von Rotberg added that it was a “dangerous game” because inflation is still far beyond the target and could curb any Fed’s hub through inflation – and because the U.S. government’s deficit has expanded and could increase during the decline, fueling concerns in interest rate markets.

– Jenni Reid

European Market: The following is the opening call

European markets are expected to open on Tuesday as global markets prepare for previously announced trade tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump.

According to IG, the UK’s FTSE 100 index is expected to rise 31 points at 8,689 points, Germany’s Dax (Dax) rose 88 points to 22,251, France’s CAC was 7,798 points higher and Italy’s FTSE MIB 77 points above 38,816.

Data issuance includes the latest EU inflation prints.

– Holly Ellyatt