By Philip Blenkinsop

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union may have won a reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened 50% tariffs, but it remains unclear how the bloc will square its push for a mutually beneficial trade deal with Washington’s demands for steep concessions.

Trump backed away from imposing the levies on EU imports from June 1 after a call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, restoring a July 9 deadline to allow talks between the U.S. and the 27-nation union to produce a deal.

The European Commission, which oversees trade policy for the EU, said the call had added new impetus to the negotiations, which the two presidents had agreed to fast track.

There was little indication, however, of what, if any, progress Trump and von der Leyen had mad

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