Merz floats EU trade bazooka as last resort as US trade row spirals

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2026-02-23

Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has floated the use of the EU's "trade bazooka," an anti-coercion instrument under which access to the bloc's market can be restricted, as "a final option" if talks fail to resolve the ongoing trade dispute with the US. "I am confident that we will find a way to resolve these trade disputes without resorting to this instrument," Merz told editors-in-chief at a conference hosted by dpa in Berlin on M......

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