Meloni and Merz welcomed the tariff deal with Trump, Marine Le Pen called it a fiasco

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described as "positive" The European Union and the United States are close to reaching a trade agreement, but he stressed that he must first see the details, Italian news agency ANSA reported.

The framework agreement reached today is good, preventing a trade war and a serious blow to the automotive sector, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, quoted by Reuters.

"This agreement has managed to prevent a trade conflict that would have affected the highly export-oriented German economy", Merz said in a statement.

"This applies in particular to the automotive industry, where the current tariffs of 27.5% will be reduced by almost half to 15%", the chancellor said.

Opposition forces in France criticized the tariff agreement reached yesterday between the United States and the European Union, which was announced by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, France reported press.

French oppositionists believe that the agreement will harm France's sovereignty.

According to the leader of the far-right "National Rally" Marine Le Pen, the agreement is a "political, economic and moral fiasco".

The European Commission "has adopted asymmetric clauses that France itself, led by a patriotic government, would never have accepted. Hundreds of billions of euros for gas, as well as for weapons that will be imported from the United States every year", said Le Pen, expressing her opinion that the agreement is "an unconditional capitulation from the point of view of French industry, as well as for France's energy and military sovereignty".

The far left also makes the same findings, AFP notes. The leader of "Insubordinate France" Jean-Luc Mélenchon said that "we gave in to Trump on everything" - "tariffs, purchase obligations, a 5 percent tax on GDP".

The general secretary of the Socialist Party, Pierre Jouvet, said that the agreement turns Europe into a vassal.

"Should we be happy that they imposed "only" 15 percent tariffs on us? "However, it is our jobs, our industries and the environment that Ursula von der Leyen sacrificed by promising $600 billion in investments in the US and the purchase of liquefied natural gas," Jouvet said.

The EU-US agreement provides for 15% tariffs on imported European goods and an obligation for the EU to buy $750 billion in energy from the US and invest an additional $600 billion in the US.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described the agreement as good and specified that the US and the EU had agreed to completely eliminate tariffs on some of their products.