Ceasefire prospects, joint drone production and strengthening air defences on table in US talks, Ukraine says – Europe live
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Ukraine president says he had ‘productive’ meeting with US envoy with Trump announcement on Russia due to come later today

EU ministers are meeting this morning for urgent talks after the US president, Donald Trump, threatened to impose 30% tariffs on the bloc – despite what they believed were promising talks with the US administration on how to avoid them.

But in a letter issued over the weekend, Trump said:

  • "We have had years to discuss our Trading Relationship with The European Union, and we have concluded we must move away from these long-term, large, and persistent, Trade Deficits, engendered by your Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies, and Trade Barriers …

  • Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from Reciprocal.”