Frankfurt (Germany), 3 Feb (LaPresse) – ‘Both the US and Europe benefit from the exchange of goods and services. If there were a policy that made that difficult, then it would be bad for the US and bad for Europe. It remains clear that Europe is a strong economic area, we can manage our own affairs and we can respond to tariff policies with tariff policies. But the perspective and the goal should be to proceed in such a way that there is cooperation'. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said this on his arrival at the informal EU summit in Brussels.