France’s Emmanuel Macron has called for the EU to activate its most potent trade weapon against the US after President Donald Trump threatened to hit several European countries with extra tariffs in response to the dispute over Greenland.
Trump on Saturday said the US would apply an additional 10 per cent levy on goods from France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland from February 1, marking an abrupt escalation in tensions between the US and its allies over Trump’s ambitions to own Greenland. The tariffs would rise to 25 per cent in June if no resolution was found, Trump said in a Truth Social post.
His outburst over Greenland signals the deepest rift among Nato allies since the alliance’s foundation and has prompted angry reactions from European leaders and business executives who have previously been more measured for fear of losing US support for Ukraine.