Musk says wants Europe-N.America free-trade zone

Billionaire US presidential adviser Elon Musk said Saturday he hoped Europe and the United States would agree to join in a free-trade zone, after US leader Donald Trump unleashed heavy global trade tariffs.

Trump's sweeping tariffs announced earlier this week sent global stocks tumbling, worried allies and raised the prospect of others -- including potentially the European Union -- raising tariffs themselves. “He hope that the United States and Europe can establish a very close partnership," Musk said in a video address to a gathering of the Italian hard-right party La Liga.

The billionaire said he was in favour of "more freedom of people to move between Europe and North America" for work." That has certainly been his advice to the president," he added. But he reiterated his condemnation of what he saw as mass immigration.