President Trump says the European Union is blocking free trade through “non-monetary trade barriers.” He is correct – and it’s about time someone called the EU out on this.

Brussels is a world-leader in crafting aggressive and entirely unnecessary regulations which make it harder to import things into Europe. If Trump can get the EU to lower those barriers and roll back its immense regulatory state, that would be a significant win for the U.S., as well as the rest of the world, which also wants to do business in Europe – not to mention average, hardworking Europeans, who lose out from Brussels’ bad policy.

Europe has been on an eco-socialism high for years. After war broke out in Ukraine, inflation skyrocketed, supply chains were disrupted, and energy prices became out of control. While other governments were grappling with those problems, the European Union was busy passing a raft of world-first environmental laws which centralized a huge amount of policymaking power in the hands of Brussels lawmakers, all in the name of saving the planet.

In the process, they created a series of new non-tariff trade barriers which risk making Europeans – and the rest of the world – a little poorer each day. By pushing back against these regulations, the U.S. would be both fighting for its own interests and doing a service to Europeans, too. Ironically, rolling back the EU’s new green rules would also help the planet, since many of its eco-laws do more harm than good to the environment.