Many thanks Digo Velasquez with the Luxembourgort.

It's with great interest that I read

Marroeffkovich's,

um,

comment in the Financial Times.

Uh,

I wanted to ask if that's not giving in to Donald Trump's blackmail

and,

um,

legitimizing this,

uh,

negotiating method by the United States President.

Thank you.

This is a question for Olof.

Thanks for your question.

Look

Sometimes a

headline can be a little misleading.

And we need to be very clear about this fact.

There has been no

formal offer

to the US.

Of anything

at present.

What has happened to date is that we have discussed

The areas that from our side

we believe we could.

Potentially find agreements in.

And so

We need to really,

really stress that.

We are fully engaged

in our discussions with the US.

A negotiated solution remains our clear and preferred outcome.

We're not going to give blow by blow

commentary on the negotiations that are happening,

but

we

absolutely are committed to finding agreements with the US

that benefits

both sides,

and that's really all we can say for the moment.

Yes,

Diego,

he would like to follow up on this.

So to be clear,

there is no such offer like the one that was in the Financial Times.

I would encourage you to read the rest of the article

because what Commissioner Szeic clearly says is that there are areas

where we could

not will but could look at

greater cooperation with the US,

and by the way,

this is entirely consistent with

what the European Commission has been saying

since President Trump won the election.

As early as November,

President von der Leyen said that

we could look at areas such as Energy,

notably LNG,

some agricultural products,

soybeans,

for example,

where

there could be

good potential

to increase EU imports from the US.

So

there's nothing new here.

We're simply reiterating that there are areas where we believe

we can.

That potentially increase our imports from the US

and that would

also have the

additional benefit,

let's say,

of

reducing

to some extent

the trade in goods

surplus that we enjoy and which seems to be such

a fixation on the other side of the Atlantic.

OK.

Phil Tuollo,

yes,

please.

Yeah,

it's also on tariffs.

So,

um,

in the article in the EFT,

Commissioner Sefkovic said that there's some progress was made,

but can you tell us where exactly this progress was made and how concretely?

Thank you.

Thanks for your question and I'm sorry to disappoint you,

but we don't go into details about

the negotiations that are happening

at either technical or political level.

There will be opportunities for us

as things progress,

to communicate in a more detailed and structured way,

and when that moment arrives,

we will certainly do so.

Indeed,

yes,

please.

Could you explain?

Previously as well,

and maybe this is more for anarchy,

but

in terms of buying more US goods,

you've explained before from this podium that

ultimately it's the free market that decides,

you know,

it's demand,

it's the price that

determines how much

and where do we buy these goods from

as well in LNG.

So I'm just wondering what's in the realm

of possibility for the Commission to actually.

to buy more US goods if that's on the table.

And that's precisely a part of the

all the options that are being looked into in

order to really then have a discussion on very concrete

scenarios,

options,

what can be offered,

what can be expected in exchange,

what has been said already very,

very clearly is that.

We're ready to offer 0 for 0

on industrial goods,

and

colleagues are looking into all the options,

all the scenarios as we go,

as we explore options to be presented to our counterparts in the US.

Yes,

David.

Thank you,

Carreta,

to avoid to be,

to be misleaded by headlines and so on,

there is another part which is quite interesting,

of the interview,

which is,

where,

Commissioner Šefčovič or the Financial Times

is saying that Commissioner Šefčovič refused,

the 10%

base tariff,

I would like to know if

this is a red line.

So

if this

10,

the EU will react.

Thank you.

David

We've been very clear from the start that

we

don't believe that tariffs

do any good,

not for us,

not for the US,

not for the global economy.

That is precisely why,

as Paula mentioned,

we took the strong initiative

to

in fact look at areas where we can not just reduce but eliminate tariffs.

That's the logic of the 0 for 0 offer.

So

we're not going to go into more detail beyond that.

Which is to say

You know,

there's a great offer on the table.

Let's talk about that.

Any other question to Olof?

Yes,

Vitaly