Gunter: Trudeau Cost Canada a Chance to Get Into Global LNG Game — Trump and U.S. Are Reaping the Benefit
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Dear Director, the bad deal Ursula von der Leyen made with Trump doesn't worry me too much from one point to another.
Gunter: Trudeau cost Canada a chance to get into global LNG game — Trump and U.S. are reaping the benefit
Last Sunday, at President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland (a.k.a. King Donald’s summer palace), Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union pledged European countries would buy US$750 billion (over $1 trillion Canadian) of U.S. energy – largely LNG – over the next three years in return for Trump promising to impose only 15% tariffs on the union’s member states.
Ursula von der Leyen had a hard week. The President of the European Commission, whom Forbes magazine named the most powerful woman in the world three years in a row, looked like a mouse intimidated by Donald Trump during the "greatest trade negotiation ever seen".
EU Commission President von der Leyen sells the customs deal with the USA as a success. In the middle class, the critical voices increase – many associations fear great economic damage.
First, the image. Its eloquence: the forced smile of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, waving with her thumb up, imitating the classic gesture of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who is next to her, exultant; the faces of contained resignation of the majority of members of the European delegation to one side of the photo in front of the faces of objective met of the Americans after a meeting that se…
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