{"id":379219,"date":"2026-01-19T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379219\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:21:07","slug":"trump-says-he-will-100-carry-out-greenland-tariffs-threat-as-eu-vows-to-protect-its-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379219\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will &#8216;100%&#8217; carry out Greenland tariffs threat, as EU vows to protect its interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Danish foreign minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen said that Europe had to show President Trump tariff threats were &#8220;not the way forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have red lines that can&#8217;t be crossed,&#8221; he told Sky News. &#8220;You can&#8217;t threaten your way to ownership of Greenland. I have no intention of escalating this situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nato secretary general Mark Rutte said the alliance will keep working with Denmark and Greenland on the security of the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The European Union is to hold an emergency summit in Brussels for its leaders on Thursday where they will discuss how to respond to Trump&#8217;s latest threat to take over Greenland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kaja Kallas, the EU&#8217;s foreign policy chief, said the bloc has &#8220;no interest to pick a fight, but we will hold our ground&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But trades threats are not the way to go about this,&#8221; Kallas added. &#8220;Sovereignty is not for trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish foreign minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen said that Europe had to show President Trump tariff threats were &#8220;not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-379219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}