Hurricane Trump hits Europe

Carrying out Donald Trump's promises and threats, the US government on Thursday announced that as of Friday, imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico will be hit with additional tariffs.

With countermeasures from the other side, we will see the American president's insistence on isolating his country from its allies affecting not only US-EU relations and developments within Europe, but also each one of us. 

Steel products constituted about 69 million euros of the total exports of 888.7 million euros from Greece to the United States last year, according to Foreign Ministry figures.

The amount is not so important that Trump's action will, of its own, have severe consequences for Greece. It will, however, have a direct impact on exports to the United States; also, as other countries seek new markets outside the United States, Greek...