A senior source close to President Macron warned Paris would not back down in its bid to impose huge levies on US tech giants and block American firms from winning lucrative government contracts

The EU-US trade deal prompted a backlash in Europe on Monday, with France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou saying that the bloc had “resigned itself into submission”.

Some French cabinet members have aired their sharp disapproval of the agreement with the United States. The prime minister called it “a dark day.”