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BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday that Berlin and Paris would negotiate a joint strategy to stave off U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats in the run up to a gathering of the bloc’s 27 leaders in Brussels this week. French President Emmanuel Macron’s office on Sunday asked the European Union to […]

“A tariff war isn’t in anybody’s interests,” he said. “What I want to do is to avoid a tariff war, because it will be businesses, workers and families across the country that will be hit by a trade war.” Britain has “not got to that stage,” he said on the question of U.K. retaliation. “My […]

Norway’s government does not award the prize, which is given out by an independent committee. The American president’s declaration that he is no longer so fixated on playing peacemaker comes amid his increasingly aggressive saber-rattling on Greenland, the self-ruling Danish territory he has vowed to seize for the U.S.  Over the weekend, Trump announced he […]

“Everything must be prepared now,” he added, while also emphasizing “we are ready to find solutions. We are extending our hand, but we are not prepared to be blackmailed.” French President Emmanuel Macron’s office had announced Sunday that France would ask the EU to activate the bloc’s Anti-Coercion Instrument, nicknamed the trade bazooka. Germany is usually more […]

European leaders this week face an escalating crisis as U.S. President Donald Trump steps up his threats to seize the island of Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory. Trump has threatened to tariff eight European countries in pursuit of his goal, sparking intense discussions (plus outrage) across the Continent about how Europe should hit back in […]

“The coalition of the willing started as being about Ukraine,” said another diplomat. “But it has created very close ties between some of the key people in the capitals. They have been building up trust and also aptitude to work together. They know each other by name and it’s easy to reach out and to […]

BRUSSELS ―The leaders of the European Union’s 27 governments will meet “in the coming days” to discuss a response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland, European Council President António Costa announced late Sunday. Costa called the extraordinary meeting of the European Council after EU ambassadors huddled in Brussels on Sunday to discuss […]

“We’re not the ones looking for conflict,” Frederiksen stated. “At the same time, it is now even clearer that this is an issue that reaches far beyond our own borders,” she added. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was one of Frederiksen’s colleagues stressing that European countries “will not let ourselves be blackmailed.” “This is an […]