Javi López, Vice-President of the European Parliament and Social Democrat MEP, laments that the trade agreement reached between European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, and US President, Donald Trump, "is unbalanced in its substance and degrading in its form." "The pact accepts impositions unworthy of a longtime ally and represents an alarming decline in autonomy for the European continent. For the EU, this agreement is nothing short of a vast strategic mortgage", he denounces.