Today\'s deal creates certainty in uncertain times. It delivers stability and predictability, for citizens and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. This is a deal between the two largest economies in the world. We trade USD 1.7 trillion per year. Together we are a market of 800 million people. And we are nearly 44% of global GDP. Just a few weeks after the NATO summit, this is the second building block, reaffirming the transatlantic partnership.
It might be worse than that: European countries are one or two election cycles behind embracing their own version of Trumpist fascism. And if that’s true, unfortunately authoritarian right wing rule is going to be the normal of the next 10 years.