“I expect that in February-March a European response to the American law will be given,” Macron said, quoted by TASS.

Europe needs to take steps to preserve the internal European market, he stressed.

On December 1, Macron said that the US inflation and climate law would negatively affect relations between Western countries.

MEPs called for a tough course on the United States because of the law to reduce inflation.

Die Welt wrote that the EU's response to the United States' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) threatens a trade war between the allies.