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French president Emmanuel Macron connected Tuesday said Europe would not beryllium intimidated oregon "give successful to bullies," delivering his strongest rebuke yet of US president Donald Trump's menace to enforce steep tariffs if Europe blocks a US takeover of Greenland.Speaking astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Macron said France and Europe would not "passively judge the instrumentality of the strongest," informing that doing truthful would magnitude to "vassalisation," quality bureau Reuters reported. Europe, helium added, would proceed to support territorial sovereignty and the regularisation of law, adjacent arsenic the planetary bid shifts toward what helium described arsenic a much brutal, rules-free environment.Macron's remarks contrasted with the much measured code adopted by respective different European leaders seeking to debar escalation successful the transatlantic dispute.
His comments came aft Trump threatened tariffs of up to 200% connected French vino and champagne and aboriginal published screenshots of backstage messages exchanged with Macron."We similar respect to bullies," Macron said."We similar the regularisation of instrumentality to brutality," helium added. Trump has vowed to rotation retired escalating tariffs from February 1 connected 8 European nations, including France, unless the United States is allowed to get Greenland. Macron said the "endless accumulation" of tariffs was fundamentally unacceptable, peculiarly erstwhile utilized arsenic leverage against territorial sovereignty.
