French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Monday slammed a weekend trade deal between the United States and the European Union as a “dark day” and tantamount to “submission.”

“It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, united to affirm their values and defend their interests, resorts to submission,” said Bayrou in a post on X of the accord thrashed out Sunday by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which fixed a baseline tariff of 15 percent on EU exports to the US.