EU and US call truce in Trump-era trade war

US President Joe Biden and European leaders ended one front in a Trump-era trade war by agreeing to a truce in a 17-year dispute over aircraft subsidies.

United States President Joe Biden ended one front in a Trump-era trade war when he met European Union leaders on Tuesday by agreeing to a truce in a transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies that has dragged on for 17 years. Quoting Irish poet WB Yeats at the start of his first EU-US summit as president, Biden also said the world was shifting and that Western democracies needed to come together. “The world has changed, changed utterly,” Biden, an Irish-American, said, citing from the poem Easter 1916, in remarks that pointed towards the themes of his eight-day trip through Europe: China’s rise, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.