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U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration reached a trade deal with the European Union Sunday after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Trump in Scotland, Reuters reported.

WATCH: Trump says U.S.-EU trade deal is one of the ‘biggest ever’ as tariffs drop

The deal would see the E.U. shoulder a 15% tariff on E.U. imports to the U.S. and on large-scale purchases of American energy and military equipment, according to the outlet. Trump on July 11 had written to von der Leyen that the U.S. would levy a 30% tariff on E.U. imports, decrying “long-term, persistent, and large” trade deficits.

The two leaders met in Turnberry, Scotland, according to a White House video of the two at a press conference there.

The E.U. would not impose tariffs on U.S. goods entering the supranational entity’s market, under the terms of the new deal, Trump said, according to NBC News.

Asked by a reporter if he could offer the E.U. lower than 15%, Trump said no. Europe had hoped for a deal without any tariffs imposed by both sides but European companies would still likely welcome the deal, according to Reuters.

Trump said the U.S. has had a great relationship with the E.U. “but it has been a very one-sided transaction, very unfair to the United States.”

The U.S. and the E.U. are the two largest global economies with a trade volume of $1.7 trillion between both economies and a combined market of 800 million people, von der Leyen told reporters. She expressed optimism that the new trade deal, if successful, would be the biggest deal each entity has ever made.

Trump went into the meeting only half-certain about making the deal and that there were three or four issues to address, according to the livestream. “I think the main sticking point is fairness,” he said.

The deal would be about rebalancing, von der Leyen said. “We have a surplus, the United States has a deficit, and we have to rebalance it,” she added.

The U.S. trade deficit with the E.U. stood at nearly $236 billion in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It stood at just over $137.3 billion between January and May 2025 — up from $92,482.7 within the same period in 2024, according to the data.

The E.U. market is closed to American cars while the U.S. imports millions of cars from the E.U., according to Trump. While the U.S. imported 749,170 cars from the E.U. in 2024, the E.U. imported 164,857 cars from the U.S., according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.

Trump praised von der Leyen for having “done a terrific job for them [the E.U.] — not for us — but she’s done a great job and she’s highly respected by us also.”

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The Scotland police recently referred to pedophiles as “minor attracted people.” Many expressed outrage over this attempt to normalize the abuse of children. Now comes this.

The West is sinking deeper and deeper into a Kafkaesque mix of socialism and depravity, while the Churches remain largely silent instead of protecting Judeo-Christian values and innocent children.

The “EU project’s use of the term Minor-Attracted People (MAPs) to describe paedophiles” is causing a huge backlash. Let’s hope that those who are dissenting succeed in stopping this abuse. The European Commission “is funding the Drag Queen Shows across Europe,” which means taxpayers are funding it, with no say in where their money is going.

“Horrible Propaganda” – EU Project Rebrands Paedophiles ‘People with a Sexual Interest in Children

by Peter Caddle, Breitbart, January 16, 2023:

A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has accused the European Union of pushing “horrible propaganda” after a project described paedophiles as “people with a sexual interest in children”, accusing the bloc of seeking to rebrand them with a term that is both “more appealing and morally neutral”.

Cristian Terhes, a Romanian MEP who sits with the European Conservatives and Reformists group, has slammed the EU for allegedly pushing for the term “paedophile” to be replaced with something “more appealing and morally neutral”.

It comes after controversy surrounding an EU project’s use of the term Minor-Attracted People (MAPs) to describe paedophiles, despite the fact that the term is highly controversial, and seen by some as overly sympathetic towards predators.

However, despite the use of the term prompting huge backlash only last month, Terhes claims that the EU still seems to be trying to soften the language around paedophiles, with another EU project on child protection repeatedly referring to them as “people with a sexual interest in children”.

“I am shocked and appalled, in equal measure, that the European Commission was, until very recently… replacing the term ‘paedophile’ with the more appealing and morally neutral phrase of Minor Attracted Person,” Terhes alleged in comments to Breitbart Europe.

“They even intensified this horrible propaganda and are now talking of ‘people with a sexual interest in children’,” he continued.

“This attitude of the European Commission to soft soap an evil and criminal behaviour, like paedophilia, is dangerous and a threat to all children in Europe,” the public representative went on to say, calling for the project in question to be withdrawn by European Commission, currently led by Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen.

The Romanian MEP also took aim at the EU’s continued funding of drag queen shows for children, with the bloc giving financial support to drag projects in the likes of Germany, Spain, and Slovenia.

One project sponsored by the EU that took place in Berlin — titled ‘Drag It Up!’ — saw “38 young queer people” trained in the art of drag, with those involved being taught to put on makeup and wigs, walk in high heels, and implement “methods of blurring and exaggerating traditional binary gender roles”….

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