The European Union called an emergency meeting of ambassadors from the bloc’s 27 nations on Jan. 18 to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to impose a series of increasing tariffs on some European allies that oppose the United States’ efforts to acquire Greenland.
The holder of the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, Cyprus, announced late on Jan. 17 that it had planned the meeting for the next day, which is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. local time.
Trump said on Jan. 16 that he was considering a wave of tariffs on European allies “if they don’t go along” with allowing the United States to purchase the Danish territory of Greenland. U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt at the White House on Jan. 14….
EU Hosts Emergency Meeting in Response to Trump’s Tariffs Over Greenland
