🇺🇸❌🇪🇺 U.S. President, Donald Trump, hit the European Union with a standard 30% tariff after negotiations with the European Commission.

The tariff takes effect on August 1st 2025.

President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen said she “regretted” the tariffs, promised retaliation but promised she will continue to negotiate until August 1st to hopefully have the tariffs removed.

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🇺🇸🇩🇪 Bundesbank head says tariffs may crush hopes for growth of the German economy

The head of Germany's Bundesbank warned on Thursday that the high import tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump currently plans to impose on European goods risk wiping out even a modest recovery in Europe's largest economy in the coming years.
Germany is battling to stave off a third consecutive year of recession in 2025, but Trump's 30% tariff on goods imports from Europe would, if implemented, erase whole chunks of transatlantic commerce and force a rethink of its export-led economic model.

"If tariffs materialise in August, a recession in Germany in 2025 cannot be ruled out," Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said.

The Bundesbank forecast a stagnation this year and slight growth of 0.7% in 2026, before the tariff rate was announced last week.

The projected growth for next year is no longer secure, with Nagel warning it could "possibly be completely eaten up by the tariffs that are now being discussed".

With European leaders hoping they can still win some kind of reprieve from Trump before his August 1 deadline, Nagel urged negotiators to aim for a significant reduction in the announced tariffs, which ideally should not be implemented at all. "That must be the goal."

Turning to any potential EU response if a deal is not reached, Nagel said all options should be considered, including the so-called anti-coercion instrument, which allows the bloc to retaliate against third countries that put economic pressure on EU members to change their policies.

The Bundesbank chief and ECB policymaker also issued a stark warning against interfering with the independence of central banks, following Trump's attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bundesbank-head-says-tariffs-may-crush-hopes-german-growth-2025-07-17/

🇮🇱❌✝️🇻🇦 Based on photographs, the Israeli tank crew who fired at the Latin Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City, (not a missile as initially reported) aimed at the cross on the church but missed and hit the roof, causing part of it to collapse and crush several people, killing three and injuring a dozen more including the parish priest.

The IDF released a statement “deeply regretting” the “misfire” which resulted in the deaths and injuries at the Latin Church of the Holy Family.

Israel also “deeply regretted” firing at the USS Liberty when it “mistakenly misidentified” the ship as an Egyptian vessel.

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🇺🇸😷📹 — U.S. President Donald Trump diagnosed with vein issue after reporting swollen legs Per White House

Luckily, it's nothing serious.

"An echocardiogram was also performed and confirm normal cardiac structure and function. No signs of heart failure, renal impairment or systemic illness were identified."

🔗 Nick Sortor (@nicksortor)

🇪🇸🗳❗️ — The Center-Right, Pro-Israel Spanish People's Party (PP) would win the general elections in Spain with 36.1% of the votes and a 10-point lead over the ruling leftist Pro-Palestine Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), according to the DYM survey

🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🇧🇷😎 — U.S. President Donald Trump once again expressed support for former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), stating that Bolsonaro has fought many times for his country, “even against me, to defend them [the Brazilian people].”

“President Bolsonaro is a good man. I’ve met many prime ministers, presidents, and kings and queens. And I know him, and I’m very good at this. President Bolsonaro is not a dishonest man. He loves the people of Brazil. He fought hard for the people of Brazil. He negotiated trade deals against me for the people of Brazil, and he was very tough. And he was tough because he wanted to get a good deal for his country. He was not a dishonest man. And I believe this is a witch hunt, and it should not be happening.

It’s not just because he’s a friend of mine, but because he’s someone I know. He represents millions of Brazilians — wonderful people. He loves Brazil and fought hard for those people. Now they want to imprison him. That looks like a witch hunt to me, and I think it’s very unfortunate.”

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🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🇧🇷😎 — U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that the decision to impose tariffs of up to 50% on imports from Brazil is politically motivated, in response to the legal proceedings against former president Jair Bolsonaro.

“The [tariff] letter says you’re going to pay 30%, 35%, 25%, 20%... in one case, 50% for Brazil, because of what they’re doing to their former president [Bolsonaro]. It’s shameful.

I know the former president. He fought hard for the people of Brazil, that I can say. I believe he is an honest man. I think what they’re doing to him is terrible.”