Overview
- President Donald Trump said a 10% tariff on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands will start on Feb. 1, rising to 25% on June 1 unless a deal is reached for the U.S. to purchase Greenland.
- EU leaders condemned the plan as risking a dangerous downward spiral in transatlantic relations and called an emergency meeting of member-state envoys for Sunday.
- Protesters rallied in Copenhagen and Nuuk with messages that Greenland is not for sale and that decisions about the island rest with Greenlanders and Denmark.
- A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation visited Copenhagen to reassure allies as lawmakers criticized the tariff threat and advanced the NATO Unity Protection Act to bar U.S. funds from supporting any blockade, occupation, annexation, or control of NATO territory.
- The White House has not ruled out the use of force to take Greenland even as European officials describe recent allied activities in Greenland as routine security exercises.