Jonathan Eyal European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, who arrives in Washington today for trade talks, fully anticipates the meetings to be some of the trickiest negotiations he has ever conducted.
For the head of the European Union's executive body is not only facing a US leader determined to cut America's trade deficit with Europe, but also the first American president in more than half a century to have publicly identified the EU as a "foe" of the United States.
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