Oliver Crook

And when Secretary Lutnick was here, we caught up with him.

He came on Bloomberg Television and he said that basically in order to make progress on steel and aluminum, there needs to be movement on regulations for digital industries.

So basically stuff that's outside of trade that the United States considers non-trade barriers or non-tariff barriers within.

Is that something that is on the table in terms of the negotiation?

Could that be part of a framework?

And is there any other avenue to get those tariffs down other than basically diminishing European tech regulation?

And speaking of sort of rare earth minerals, this obviously has been thrust into the sort of the conversation in a very sort of obvious way now by China.

Are we getting closer, is Europe getting closer to getting a general license from China as the United States has?

Does that mean that there's going to be a regime that governs this sort of issue between the EU and China?

Or is it still just kind of being hopeful that things don't change, basically?

And one of the costs of imbalance and the sort of dependencies has been sort of evident in the trade balance with China and something that Emmanuel Macron has been very critical of, particularly in the last week or so after his visit to Beijing, saying that there should be a more aggressive approach to dealing with the oversupply that is going into Europe.

Do you think there is appetite to deal more aggressively with this question from China?

And do you think that the trade deficit with China specifically should be targeted by the EU and that is something that they should be looking to close?

And if 350 billion is too high, what for you is a more reasonable figure?

What is the kind of goal, since we can talk concretely about kind of what we should be aiming for?

And is the anti-coercion device, for example, something that is on the table in trying to achieve that goal?

And it seemed going into sort of at the end of last week or in the middle of last week that Mercosur was more or less a done deal.

There now appears to be some question about that.

What do you think are the chances that Mercosur goes into effect, that it is signed this weekend?

And just very quickly, after 25 years of negotiation, which is how long this has sort of been going place, if we do not get it over the line in this next couple of weeks, can we consider this sort of initiative to be dead?