Ursula von der Leyen confirms hold, saying ‘we want to give negotiations a chance’ and ‘work on further countermeasures continues’
We’re getting a bit more details from EU spokesperson, Olof Gill, speaking at the commission’s press briefing right now (which, notably, got delayed by almost half an hour as that von der Leyen statement was being put out).
He said:
We are not going to offer any greater detail at this point about what we are not saying to the Americans beyond what we have already said.
We want to negotiate, we want to talk.
