'A surprise': EU leaders warn against Trump's tariffs linked to Greenland bid

European Union leaders connected Saturday warned US President Donald Trump against utilizing tariffs arsenic leverage successful his bid to get Greenland, cautioning that specified measures could severely harm transatlantic relations.This comes arsenic Trump said that from February 1, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would look a 10 per cent tariff connected each goods exported to the United States.Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said Trump’s comments had travel arsenic a surprise, stressing that Greenland’s information posture was already aligned with broader Arctic stability. "The intent of the accrued subject beingness successful Greenland, to which the president refers, is precisely to heighten information successful the Arctic," Rasmussen said successful a connection sent to AFP.Rasmussen added that Copenhagen was coordinating intimately with Brussels and different partners connected the issue. "We are successful adjacent interaction with the European Commission and our different partners connected the matter," helium said, conscionable days aft attending talks astatine the White House with US and Greenlandic officials connected the Greenland question.At the EU level, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa issued a associated connection hours aft Trump threatened tariffs of up to 25 per cent connected aggregate European nations.

"Tariffs would undermine transatlantic relations and hazard a unsafe downward spiral," they wrote successful a station connected societal media."Europe volition stay united, coordinated, and committed to upholding its sovereignty," they added."The EU stands successful afloat solidarity with Denmark and the radical of Greenland," the connection further said, adding, "Dialogue remains essential, and we are committed to gathering connected the process begun already past week betwixt the Kingdom of Denmark and the US."In Germany, elder European Parliament subordinate Manfred Weber warned that Trump’s latest remarks could derail the EU–US commercialized woody agreed past year. Weber heads the European People’s Party, the largest governmental radical successful the European Parliament."The EPP is successful favour of the EU–U.S. commercialized deal, but fixed Donald Trump’s threats regarding Greenland, support is not imaginable astatine this stage," Weber said successful a station connected X."The 0% tariffs connected U.S. products indispensable beryllium enactment connected hold," helium added.Brussels and Washington reached a preliminary statement successful July nether which astir EU exports would look a 15 per cent US levy. However, some sides proceed to question further concessions, leaving the aboriginal of the woody uncertain amid rising governmental tensions.