Trump’s playbook in Europe: offer carrots but warn you have a great stick
The European Union spent last year to elaborate secret plans for what the block would have done if President Trump had maintained his threats to impose higher rates on European goods and services.Now, since those threats go from hypothetical to potentially imminent, its plans are becoming widely focused.Specific sectors to hit, politically sensitive - such as the products made in the Republican states - with targeted rates intended to inflict maximum pain. Do not intensify in a tit-for-tat competition if it is avoidable. Move quickly and definitely, potentially using new tactics that could affect service providers such as large Silicon Valley technological companies.It is an approximate playbook - described in general by three diplomats who required anonymity because the plans were still u...










