Economics

Europe Plans to Use the U.S. Election to Beat Trump’s Trade War

  • The EU eyes a strategy of delay and distract to avoid conflict
  • Washington is threatening a host of trade measures against EU
Photographer: Cooper Neill/Bloomberg
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The European Union is legendary for moving slowly -- and that may be just the right pace for confronting President Donald Trump’s trade wars.