andre phillips is in brussels for us on a b there is the suggestion that the e.u. will be exempt from some of these tariffs how's that going to work and what's reaction been. it goes down quite well lauren in so far as we know exactly what is going to happen and tonio to johnny the head the president of the european parliament spoke of about an hour ago he said that the e.u. welcomed the positive message but remained cautious in till they knew what was going to happen in the long term the e.u. trade commissioner cecilia milestone was over in washington all of that the first half of this week negotiating very hard she's been filling in e.u. heads of states about what has happened yes it seems that a major trade confrontation between the e.u. and the united states has been averted at least for now but there's still going to be lingering concern that we came close to one in the first place the e.u. and the united states obviously historically have extremely close economic and political ties did you look at donald to the european council presents opening remarks he sai