
Leveraging the EU Single Market to escape the Trump Trap
Sabine Stephan and Sebastian Dullien
Twenty-one of 27 member states saw their exports fall under Trump’s tariffs; the EU’s strongest lever is its own single market.
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Sabine Stephan is a senior economist at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, where she works on foreign trade and trade policy. She holds a doctorate in economics from the Free University of Berlin and previously worked as a research associate at DIW Berlin, with field assignments in Vietnam, Laos, and Jordan.

Sabine Stephan and Sebastian Dullien
Twenty-one of 27 member states saw their exports fall under Trump’s tariffs; the EU’s strongest lever is its own single market.