Macron’s state visit to the UK overshadowed by Trump’s tariff threat
Union Jack and French flags were exhibited on July 8, 2025 at the shopping center in London on July 6, 2025 before a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron.
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French President Emmanuel Macron will start a three-day state Pump in England on Tuesday, and will begin a visit to the political show-but the US President Donald Trump’s threats of global tariffs that cannot be foreseen in the state that is likely to overshadow the red carpet.
Macron and his wife Brigitte, King III. Charles and Queen Camilla will host a state feast on Tuesday. The United Kingdom government will later meet with business leaders and Prime Minister Keir Starmer for interviews that are expected to focus on “common priorities”, including migration, trade, defense and security.
The great bench is Washington’s prickly problem and how Trump and his cumbersome and unpredictable tariffs regime that can seriously affect Europe and global economic growth.
On Monday, Trump shared the screenshots on the social media of the signed “Letters” sent to 14 countries, including Japan, South Korea and South Africa, and said that they have encountered a steep walk in trade tariffs from August 1st. The original deadline for high tariffs on July 9 has been expanded.
White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said that more letters will be sent in the coming days. This reported the European Union (EU), which does not receive a “letter” on Monday.
Hopes that a US-EU trade agreement can be ink this week, although it will be useful-or disadvantaged as Macron, leading Bloc’s second largest economy,
“The EU probably reportedly hurried to make an agreement with the United States until the end of this week,” Berenberg Bank’s chief economist Holger Schmieding.
“The EU, in addition to some sectoral tariffs, will not be negotiated by the existing 10% US base tariff, the EU still hopes to receive some limited exemptions from these tariffs, so the general increase in the average US tariff, the general increase over the imports of this year, the US 10, the US is higher, is higher than a higher threat.”
PUMP AND PAGEANTRY
England absolutely draws the stops of Macron’s state visit, which will have the entire Pompon and Pageantry where the country is excellent.
On Tuesday, Macronlar will travel to England and will be met by the prince of Wales and princess William and Kate. There, on Tuesday evening, before joining a glamorous state feast on the site, they will participate in a transport regiment with King III III and queen Camilla.
King of England III. Charles meets with French President Emmanuel Macron, who was watched by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (C) during a reception for European leaders as part of the European political community meeting on 18 July 2024, as part of the European political community meeting.
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At the beginning of the state visit, the king is expected to make a speech that Britain and France are faced with a large number of complex threats from multiple directions. We face them as friends and allies. These difficulties do not know any limit: No castle can protect us against them this time, ” According to Sky News.
Makron is known to have a warm relationship with the British royal. Plaudits won the King’s latest French Senate in both English and French, as he spoke fluently. During a state visit in 2023.
Macron In addition, the deputies addressing around the London clock in London He will meet business leaders in London on Tuesday on Wednesday and will meet with Starmer at the French-British summit on Thursday.
This is the first state visit of an EU leader on the British territory since his departure from the block in 2020 after the 2016 Brexit referendum. British government, visit ” Historical Opportunity To exhibit the width of the UK-France relationship. “
The flags outside the Windsor Castle of Windsor in Windsor on July 6, 2025 before a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron on July 8, 2025.
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Starmer, who seems to be intertwined with Trump despite his different political persuasions, can give Macron some clues about how to win his transatlantic allies, as he continues to negotiate with EU Washington.
Trump is actually the first country to make a trade agreement with Washington and will be protected from future tariffs, “Because I love them.” Meanwhile, Macron made a more difficult journey with the US leader who humiliated him. More than once. Trump at the last G-7 meeting in June He lambed Macron as “looking for publicity”.
