After months of intensive talks and shuttle diplomacy, a trade agreement between the European Union and the US now rests mostly on Donald Trump.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche informed Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files that the Department of Justice and the FBI reviewed.

The 27-country bloc faces a tariff rate of 30% on imports to the U.S. if no deal is struck by next Friday. The EU is also planning to raise levies on imports from the U.S. if a pa

Confident that his right-wing populist policies would help win him favor with Trump’s administration, Orbán said in an interview in April that while tariffs “will be a disadvantage,” his government was negotiating “other economic agreements and issues that will offset them.”

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. and Japan had struck a trade deal that includes a 15% tariff to be levied on U.S. imports from the country. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the deal would include $550 billion of Japanese investments in the United States.

President Trump's threatened 30% tariffs on the EU might prompt some businesses to take another look at the U.K.

On his own terms, it could now be said that the aggressive approach by the US President is yielding tangible results.