PARIS — French President Emanuel Macron said the European Union failed to leverage its massive single market and sufficiently scare the United States into accepting a better deal than the one it reached Sunday.
“We need to be feared. We weren’t feared enough,” Macron told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting Wednesday, said a French official close to Macron, who was granted anonymity as it is often customary practice.
Macron was noticeably silent in the days after U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen struck the accord, which will see the EU pay 15 percent tariffs on most of its exports to the United States.
