AARHUS: The EU is “ready for a deal” with the United States, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday before negotiators met in Washington ahead of a July 9 deadline.
EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic is currently in Washington and due to meet his US counterparts later on Thursday. “We want a negotiated solution, but you all know that at the same time, we’re preparing for the possibility that no satisfactory agreement is reached,” von der Leyen told reporters in Aarhus, Denmark.
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