{"id":18808,"date":"2025-07-28T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18808"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:58:38","slug":"eu-admits-it-cant-guarantee-600b-promise-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18808","title":{"rendered":"EU admits it can\u2019t guarantee $600B promise to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The European Union has admitted it doesn\u2019t have the power to deliver on a promise to invest $600 billion in the United States economy, only hours after making the pledge at landmark trade talks in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s because the cash would come entirely from private sector investment over which Brussels has no authority, two EU officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EU officials said that the estimated $600 billion will add to the EU\u2019s current $2.8 trillion private investments in the U.S. that accounts for approximately 3.4 million jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eus-600bn-us-investment-will-come-exclusively-from-private-sector\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eus-600bn-us-investment-will-come-exclusively-from-private-sector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The European Union has admitted it doesn\u2019t have the power to deliver on a promise to invest $600 billion in the United States economy, only hours after making the pledge at landmark trade talks in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because the cash would come entirely from private sector investment over which Brussels has no authority, two EU officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The EU officials said that the estimated $600 billion will add to the EU\u2019s current $2.8 trillion private investments in the U.S. that accounts for approximately 3.4 million jobs.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eus-600bn-us-investment-will-come-exclusively-from-private-sector\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[728,923,272,355,290,314,1288,208,141,226],"class_list":["post-18808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-imports","tag-international-relations","tag-negotiation","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18809,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions\/18809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}