The EU risks retaliation from Washington if it presses ahead with plans to limit US companies’ involvement in pan-continental military projects, Washington’s envoy to Brussels has warned.
Gordon Sondland told the Financial Times that if member states continued to hold businesses from outside the bloc at arm’s length because of “stubbornness or protectionism” on the multibillion-euro projects, the US would consider various responses unlikely to “be positive for either side”.
The ambassador said in an interview that transatlantic relationship remained fundamentally “very strong”, but he was sharply critical of EU states over both security and their dealings with China.