{"id":251630,"date":"2026-01-18T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251630\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:35:08","slug":"emergency-summit-of-eu-leaders-called-on-response-to-trumps-greenland-ambitions-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251630\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency summit of EU leaders called on response to Trump\u2019s Greenland ambitions \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Main PointsEmergency summit of European Union leaders called later this week to figure out response to US president Donald Trump\u2019s ambitions to take over Greenland and hit allies with fresh tariffs.Ambassadors from the European Union<\/a>\u2019s 27 countries are convening for an emergency meeting over Trump\u2019s Greenland-related threats on tariffs.The governments of the eight European<\/a> countries threatened with US tariffs<\/a> have criticised comments coming from Washington as a breach in Europe-US relations and warned of a \u201cdownward spiral\u201d.Key Reads<\/p>\n

Ambassadors from the European Union\u2019s 27 countries are convening for an emergency meeting after US president Donald Trump<\/a> vowed a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the US is allowed to buy Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cyprus<\/a>, which holds the six-month rotating EU presidency, said late on Saturday that it had called the meeting, which EU diplomats said was set to start at 4pm GMT.<\/p>\n

Follow here for live updates.<\/p>\n

Jade Wilson – 4 hours ago<\/p>\n

Jade Wilson – 4 hours ago<\/p>\n

European countries have jointly hit back at US president Donald Trump\u2019s threatened new trade tariffs, warning the escalating dispute over Greenland risks heading into a \u201cdangerous downward spiral\u201d, our Europe Correspondent, Jack Power, writes. <\/p>\n

The near unprecedented schism in transatlantic relations, caused by Mr Trump issuing fresh threats of steep tariffs on European allies if Greenland is not sold to the US, has prompted a diplomatic scramble by European capitals in the crosshairs. <\/p>\n

In a joint statement, the governments of France, Germany, the UK, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, criticised the comments coming from Washington as a breach in Europe-US relations. <\/p>\n

\u201cTariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. We will continue to stand united and co-ordinated in our response. We are committed to upholding our sovereignty,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The involvement of troops from several European countries in a Danish military exercise in the Arctic was \u201cpre-coordinated\u201d and posed no threat to anyone, the governments said. <\/p>\n

The European countries reaffirmed they would stand firmly behind the principles of \u201csovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d in the Greenland dispute. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main PointsEmergency summit of European Union leaders called later this week to figure out response to US president…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10863,17505,24138,17347,42,6285,43,40,38,10864,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-251630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-demonstration","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-essential","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-horizontal","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topix","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}