{"id":20093,"date":"2026-02-23T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=20093"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:29:46","slug":"eu-fights-back-after-trump-threatens-15-global-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/23\/eu-fights-back-after-trump-threatens-15-global-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"EU fights back after Trump threatens 15% global tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News: &#8220;The European Parliament on Monday halted the ratification process of a sweeping trade deal with the United States, the latest fallout from the Supreme Court striking down most of President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs.&#8221; More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/europe-halts-trade-deal-trump-tariffs-rcna260231\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: &#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff policy &#8216;hasn&#8217;t changed&#8217;, the US president&#8217;s trade representative has insisted, despite the Supreme Court moving on Friday to strike down a legal justification used by Trump to impose many such tariffs. &#8216;The legal tool to implement it &#8211; that might change, but the policy hasn&#8217;t changed,&#8217; said US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in an interview with ABC News on Sunday.&#8221; More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5yvky5ldk1o\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: &#8220;Donald Trump has declared that he can use tariffs in a \u2018much more powerful and obnoxious way\u2019 than he has thus far. Posting on his Truth Social network, the US president again attacked the supreme court for ruling against his sweeping global tariffs last Friday \u2013 calling them \u2018incompetent\u2019. He also claims the justices have \u2018\u2018accidentally and unwittingly\u2019 expanded his presidential powers on tariffs.&#8221; More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/23\/us-dollar-stock-markets-losses-trump-global-tariff-supreme-court-news-updates\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the gloves are off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20104,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093\/revisions\/20104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}