EU caught between US and China, in eye of trade storm

Next Wednesday, the pause that US President Donald Trump imposed to make trade agreements will expire. The 20% import duty for the EU announced on 2 April has been replaced by 10%. Will this remain the case, and where is a possible compromise? And apart from the tariffs: what does the American position mean for the global trade rules? Is it time for Brussels to work more intensively with China to maintain them? We will delve into this.

At the Post we are dealing with various reactions that rolled into the mailbox, on our episode about the economic growth pearl that Spain is supposed to be. Were we too positive?

The Question of the Week comes from a listener who wants to know whether the US, with its sky-high national debt, is technically bankrupt and whether the wars aren't all diversionary tactics for its own problems.