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A summary
of today's developments
Donald
Trump said he is confident an agreement will be reached over Greenland during
planned meetings in Davos. Asked whether the financial commitments made by
other countries to the US would collapse over his Greenland plan, the US
president told reporters in Washington DC: “I doubt it. They need that
agreement very badly with us. They fought very hard to get it. We have a lot of
meetings scheduled on Greenland in Davos. I think things are going to work out
very well.”
Asked how
far he is willing to go to acquire Greenland, Trump said: “You’ll find out.”
Trump later said: “Something is going to happen which will be very good for
everybody.” He added: “We will work out something out where Nato will be very
happy and we will be very happy. “But we need it [Greenland] for security
purposes, we need it for national security and even world security.” Trump
added when he speaks to Greenlanders he is “sure they are going to be
thrilled”.
Trump
repeated his claim that he’s “done more for Nato than any other person, alive
or dead”.
Asked to
characterise his relationship with French president Emmanuel Macron and the
UK’s PM Keir Starmer, president Trump said: “No, I haven’t [spoken to them],
but I think I get along very well with them. “I mean, they they always treat me
well. They get a little bit rough when I’m not around, but when I’m around they
treat me very nicely.”
Emmanuel
Macron, the French president, said on Tuesday he preferred “respect to bullies”
and the “rule of law to brutality”. Macron told the World Economic Forum in
Davos, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”,
criticising the “useless aggressivity” of Trump’s pledge to levy tariffs on
countries that opposed a US takeover of Greenland.
The
Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said Europe “cannot afford to be weak” in
standing up to the US president Donald Trump. In a post on X, he wrote:
“Appeasement is always a sign of weakness. Europe cannot afford to be weak -
neither against its enemies, nor ally.”
The
European parliament will freeze ratification of the EU-US trade deal in
response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats to European countries who oppose his
takeover of Greenland. The European parliament had been due to vote in the
coming weeks on introducing 0% tariffs on US industrial goods, a key part of
the deal signed between Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump at his Turnberry
golf course in Scotland last summer.
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