Almost as bad as China, just smaller: A threat to European Union

The EU’s Jean-Claude Juncker left Washington in late July with a Rose Garden truce — a handshake trade agreement he had good reason to believe would spare the continent from President Donald Trump’s wrath. It didn’t last. In an interview on Thursday the US president spoke of the EU as if it’s likely to be his next target. “Almost as bad as China, just smaller,” he said. 

Trump’s remarks cast doubt on the longevity of his agreement with Juncker, intended to stave off a broader trade war between the US and Europe after the president imposed tariffs on imported steel and