Tusk: no to Russia, not hard Brexit and threatens Trump if he imposes tariffs on French wine

Donald Tusk has drawn the European red lines, in the first intervention of a leader before the official start of the G7. The President of the European Council has threatened US President Donald Trump with reprisals if he imposes tariffs on French wine and Brazil with slowing down the ratification of the agreement with Mercosur if Jair Bolsonaro does not decisively face the Amazon fire. He added two resounding noes: to hard Brexit and around Russia to the club of rich countries.

Tusk has never had hairs on his tongue. Less now that his term ends on October 31. It will be replaced by Belgian liberal Charles Michel. The first spoke in Biarritz, while Trump landed in Biarritz after switching from one Air Force One to a smaller one on the slopes of Bordeaux.

Tusk is the only voice of the community institutions , absent Jean Claude Junker. The president of the Commission is recovering from a recent surgical intervention.

If the big seven follow him, Putin can wait sitting his readmission.

"The reasons for leaving Russia in 2014 remain valid." The main one, "the aggression against Ukraine". Tusk disagreed with Trump that at the summit last year in Canada he suggested the readmission of Russia "partially justifying the annexation of Crimea." For the European, "under any conditions" that logic can be accepted.

Tusk also recalled that Russia's entry into the club was intended to support Moscow's transition to liberal democracy. Something that in his opinion has not occurred . Instead, the Polish proposed to invite Ukraine.

Tusk's second niet went to the hard Brexit. Tomorrow he will meet with Boris Johnson. "It will be the third conservative prime minister with whom I discuss Brexit," he said. "The EU has always been open to cooperation: with Davd Cameron when he wanted to avoid Brexit, with Theresa May who wanted to avoid hard Brexit ... but I will not cooperate with a Brexit without agreement. I still trust that Johnson does not want to move on to history as Mister No Deal. "

Warning to Bolsonaro

Tusk supported "flatly" Macron who wants the fires of the Amazon to be addressed in the G7. And he issued a serious warning to the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, if he does not fight fires in the Brazilian Amazon.

"We support the EU-Mercosur agreement, which also implies climate protection, but it is difficult to imagine a harmonious ratification by European countries while the Brazilian president allows the destruction of the green spaces of the planet," Tusk thundered.

Finally, the European leader gave Trump a touch. If you impose tariffs on French wine, the EU will "respond in the same way". President Trump responded with his threat to the French decision to impose a 3% rate on his sales to the big business online. The so-called GAFA rate by Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.

"Although the last thing we need is confrontation, especially with our best ally, the United States, we have to be prepared for that scenario," Tusk said.

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