tarriffs

With the July 9 deadline looming, the EU is working flat out to negotiate a trade deal with the US. Yet reactions from those expected to be among the hardest hit – Slovakia, Hungary and Czechia – have been muted, confused and often unhelpful. Filip Křenek, an analyst at Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM, commented on the situation for Balkan Insight.

Donald Trump has paused the introduction of new tariffs, while maintaining existing ones and raising them on China. The European Union is considering its next steps. The situation was commented on for Czech Radio Plus by Viktor Daněk from the EUROPEUM Institute.

The United States is imposing broad tariffs that impact all of its trading partners. However, some countries are more vulnerable than others, and their export relationships can be significantly affected. This issue was commented on for RTVS by Viktor Daněk, Deputy Director of the EUROPEUM Institute.