Last week, a Parisian bench in Washington, DC, got me thinking about how the European Union was created as a peace project. But it’s grown far beyond just sharing coal and steel resources to avoid war among its countries.

President Trump said the "European Union is, in many ways, nastier than China," during a news conference on Monday. Why it matters: The stakes of a prolonged U.S.-EU standoff over Trump's tariffs are high.

Trump said the European Union “is in many ways nastier than China” on trade during a press conference in which he also announced changes to the way the U.S. pays for prescription drugs. “We have all the cards.