Lescure was responding ​to a question on US President Donald Trump’s announcement ​last Friday that he would increase tariffs on EU ⁠cars because the bloc was too slow to formalise ​the deal from mid-2025.

“I want to look through the noise,” ​Lescure told reporters before a monthly meeting of eurozone finance ministers.

“We have a deal, and that deal is in the process of ​being negotiated. It is also democratically examined by the ​European Parliament. We are willing to stick to this deal in ‌good ⁠faith, and we hope everyone else is in the same frame of mind,” he said.

Representatives of the European Parliament and the Council, the body representing EU governments, will on ​Wednesday resume negotiations ​on legislation ⁠to lower EU duties on imported U.S. goods, with the EU assembly wanting to establish ​multiple safeguards.

Germany’s Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said ​the EU ⁠did not want to escalate the dispute, and Dutch Finance Minister Eelco Heinen, asked how the EU should respond, ⁠said commenting ​on that now would not ​help bring the deal across the line.

“People are working hard to finalise the ​deal,” he said.