The eight countries that Trump threatened this Saturday with imposing tariffs for having sent troops to Greenland, have expressed solidarity this Sunday with Denmark and Greenland through a joint declaration.
“As members of NATO, we are committed to strengthening it Arctic security as a shared transatlantic interest. Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and threaten to a dangerous spiral”they said Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland in the statement.
“The Danish ‘Arctic Endurance’ exercise, previously coordinated and carried out with allies, responds to this need. It does not pose any threat to anyone,” they say.
After the president’s threat, the European Union also has responded. Cyprus, which holds the semiannual rotating presidency of the EU, has summoned its ambassadors to a emergency meeting in Brussels this Sunday to discuss the issue.
However, European leaders did not want to miss the opportunity and some have expressed their direct opinion on these tariffs through their social networks or taking advantage of the fact that they were at a public event.
The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, had already expressed this Saturday that US President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs on Greenland was unacceptable and that if confirmed, Europe would respond in a coordinated manner.
“No intimidation, no threats will influence us, neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we face such situations,” he said. Macron in X.
France is committed to the sovereignty and independence of nations, in Europe and elsewhere. This guides our choices. It underpins our commitment to the United Nations and to its Charter.
It is on this basis that we support, and will continue to support Ukraine…
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 17, 2026
Likewise, Macron will ask the EU to activate the anti-coercion instrument European Union due to threats of tariffs, as reported Reuters.
This mechanism, which dates back to the end of 2023, would open the door for the EU to apply a wide range of sanctions against Washington, including the imposition of customs fees on products from that country, as well as restrictions on access to European public tenders.
In social media posts late Saturday, Bernd Lange, the German social democrat who chairs the European Parliament’s trade committee, and Valerie Hayer, head of the centrist group Renew Europe, echoed his call, as did Germany’s engineers association on Sunday.
However, some EU diplomats said now was not the time to escalate the situation.
The first Italian minister, Giorgia Melonicloser to Trump than other EU leaders, described Sunday’s tariff threat as “a mistake” and said in a briefing during a trip to Korea that had spoken with Trump a few hours before and I had told him what I thought.
Likewise, Meloni — although Italy has not sent troops to Greenland — has reported that he planned to call other European leaders later on Sunday.
In the same vein as describing Donald Trump’s threat as something erratic, the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He said the United States was “completely wrong”.
“Applying tariffs on allies to ensure the collective security of NATO members is completely wrong. We will of course address this issue directly with the US administration,” Starmer said in a statement.
For his part, the German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeilassured this Sunday that “Germany and its European partners will not be blackmailed by Donald Trump.”
“Germany will always lend a hand to the United States to find common solutions, but Berlin cannot agree with Washington on this point,” Klingbeil said in a statement.
“And that is why the signal is very clear: we will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed and there will be a European response,” he added.
He The grand she was afraidhas asked this Sunday caution. “I think we have to be very careful not to unleash a trade war that gets out of control. I don’t think anyone will benefit from it,” Stoere told the station.NRK after a press conference.