Squawk Box anchors discuss the IMF’s latest cut to its global growth forecast citing trade tensions as President Trump threatens new tariffs on EU products. EU leaders are ready to grant UK Prime Minister Theresa May a long extension to Brexit but France says the delay agreement must contain strict caveats. Meanwhile, Germany’s finance minister Olaf Scholz tells CNBC that his country is braced for any Brexit result. And we hear exclusively from the head of Germany’s Ver.di labour union who claims his group wields enough power to scupper a Deutsche Bank-Commerzbank merger.

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