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Kremlin confirms Putin-Trump call on Tuesday

In the last few minutes, the Kremlin has confirmed that Russian president Vladimir Putin would talk to US president Donald Trump by phone on Tuesday.

Asked about the planned call, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: “Yes, that’s how it is. Such a conversation is planned for Tuesday,” Reuters reported.

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Pascal Lamy also told Andrew Marr that Donald Trump’s actions will not damage the European Union’s trade arrangements with Canada.

Asked whether the EU would consider putting a “protective trade arm around Canada”, Pascal said:

We have a free trade agreement with Canada and I don’t think what Trump does will in any way damage this relationship. I think the issue between the EU and Canada is a much broader one.

It’s a sort of more geopolitical one. For instance, if Trump would sit on Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, what would Canada do? What would the EU do with Canada that it would not do with the US?

The big picture, given the various pronouncements of Trump at this stage, is much more on the geopolitical side than on the pure trade side.

On negotiating tariffs with the US, Lamy said, in his experience, “including when I was an EU trade commissioner … you do not negotiate with the US without a weapon in your pocket”.

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