Trump's Greenland stance attracts EU counter-measures

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump vowed on Saturday to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on EU members Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, along with Britain and Norway, until the United ⁠States is allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a row over the future of Denmark's vast Arctic island.
54% : A source close to French President Emmanuel Macron said he was working to coordinate a European response and was pushing for activation of the Anti-Coercion Instrument, which could limit access to public tenders in the bloc or restrict trade in services in which the US has a surplus with the EU.
53% : All the countries, already subject to tariffs of 10 per cent and 15 per cent, have sent small numbers of military personnel to Greenland. Cyprus, holder of the rotating six-month EU presidency, summoned ambassadors to an emergency meeting in Brussels on Sunday, which EU diplomats said was due to start at 5pm local time.
50% : The assembly had been due to vote on removing many EU import duties on January 26-27, but Manfred Weber, head of the European People's Party, the largest group in parliament, said in a post on X late on Saturday that approval was not possible for now.
45% : The tariff threats do though call into question trade deals the United States struck with Britain in May and the European Union in July.
41% : However, some EU diplomats said now was not the time to escalate the situation.
37% : The European Parliament looks likely now to suspend its work on the EU-US trade deal struck in July.
33% : Trump's threat came just as the European Union was signing its largest ever free trade agreement, with South American bloc Mercosur, in Paraguay.
28% : Trump's Greenland stance attracts EU counter-measuresStaff WritersReutersSun, 18 January 2026 9:06PM The European Union is facing calls to implement a never-before-used range of economic counter-measures known as the "Anti-Coercion Instrument" as part of the bloc's response to US President Donald Trump's tariff threats against European allies over Greenland.
24% : Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, closer to Trump than some other EU leaders, described the tariff threat on Sunday as "a mistake" and told a briefing during a trip to Korea that she had spoken to Trump a few hours earlier and told him what she thought.

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