Europeans Threaten to Hold Up EU-U.S. Trade Deal, Boycott World Cup over Trump’s Greenland Tariffs

Advocates in Europe of hardball negotiations over Greenland have suggested stalling the ratification of the trade deal with the United States after President Donald Trump announced that America will impose tariffs on eight countries for opposing the United States acquiring the arctic island.

European leaders reacted with outrage and indignation over the move by President Trump to impose a 10 per cent tariff on Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, all of whom have recently committed to sending troops to Greenland in an apparent show of force against Washington’s Monroe Doctrine-style demands that the island come under American control to ensure national and global security.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asserted that the military exercises were