Aurore Lalucq, a French lawmaker who chairs the European Parliament's ’'s powerful Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, told Euronews’e he did not understand why AB’ had signed a trade agreement with the US administration, which he said could not be trusted.
His comments come after the July 2025 ’ trade deal signed by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Trump, which ’ agreed on Friday under the deal on EU cars. %Over 15 ceilings ter threatening to impose 25 customs duties, he came to doubt.
Lalucq, Euronews’e said: “I don't understand how anyone can make a deal with a government that breaks its promise.”
“The talking points given to us were that the agreement would bring predictability to the business world. But since the very extravagant press conference between Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in ’ in July 2025, nothing particularly predictable has happened in any of them.”
Divisions within Socialists and Democrats
ScotlandAgreement signed in ’'s Turnberry reduces AB’'s tariffs on U.S. goods to zero while AB’yi %It faces 15 customs duties and the U.S. is committed to investing heavily in ’.
The deal was suspended by members of the European Parliament earlier this year after Trump’ used tariffs as leverage to buy Greenland’.
Last week, the US president, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’in told EU tools on social media after US criticism of ’'s war in Iran’ %He re-intensified the tension by sharing that he could impose 25 customs duties.
European officials hope to ease tensions during a meeting Tuesday between EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at Paris’. Since Trump’'s latest threat, EU leaders have largely remained silent and refrained from fueling what many see as another provocation by the US president.
European leaders humiliated themselves by signing the agreement in the first place, Lalucq said.
“We are literally representatives. When Ursula von der Leyen, Donald Trump, sits in the same room as ’, the humiliation is impersonal; Europe is humiliated. We should have taken a much tougher stance. - ”
Lalucq’'s position as a member of the Socialist and Democrats group (S&D) contradicts that of another important socialist MP, Bernd Lange’, who chairs the leading trade committee and tries to advance the agreement with additional security measures.
The split underscores different views within the European Parliament, ’'s second-largest political group, S&D, where positions often reflect national interests. Countries that are more open to the U.S. market generally take a less confrontational stance on the deal than Lalucq’, while still trying to secure advantageous conditions.
These measures are currently being discussed among EU governments and lawmakers. One proposal envisions AB’ reducing tariffs on U.S. industrial goods only if Washington’ fully complies with the agreement. Another clause, called “, will terminate the agreement in March 2028 if it is not renewed.
EU member states are divided on these issues; Some capitals, particularly Germany and Italy, are in favour of preserving the original agreement negotiated by the Commission last summer.
A new round of negotiations is scheduled for Wednesday.
