# Could US midterms affect the EU? Transatlantic ties hit a new low after Trump-Putin diesel deal

https://mins.news/en/video/122797

- France 24 English, 2026-10-30 16:24 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZXbyqQv9Xc

> From the EU’s perspective, Trump’s second presidency has been even more destabilising than his first. His false claim that the bloc was created to “screw” the United States, tariffs on European goods, territorial claims on Greenland, a diesel deal with Vladimir Putin and a call for Ukraine to get a new president have shaken the foundations of transatlantic relations.

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