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Italy’s Prime Minister called U.S. President Donald Trump’s menace to slap tariffs connected opponents of his program to prehend Greenland a “mistake” connected Sunday (January 18, 2026), adding she had told him her views.
“I judge that imposing caller sanctions contiguous would beryllium a mistake,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told journalists during a travel to Seoul.
“I spoke to Donald Trump a fewer hours agone and told him what I think, and I spoke to the NATO caput general, who confirmed that NATO is opening to enactment connected this issue.”
However, the far-right Prime Minister — a Trump state successful Europe — sought to downplay the conflict, telling journalists “there has been a occupation of knowing and communication” betwixt Europe and the United States related to the Arctic island, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Mr. Trump has threatened to enforce tariffs of up to 25% connected each goods sent to the United States from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland implicit their objections to his moves.
Ms. Meloni said it was up to NATO to instrumentality an progressive relation successful the increasing crisis.
“NATO is the spot wherever we indispensable effort to organise unneurotic deterrents against interference that whitethorn beryllium hostile successful a territory that is intelligibly strategic, and I judge that the information that NATO has begun to enactment connected this is simply a bully initiative,” she told reporters.
Ms. Meloni said that “from the American constituent of view, the connection that had travel from this broadside of the Atlantic was not clear”.
“It seems to maine that the hazard is that the initiatives of immoderate European countries were interpreted arsenic anti-American, which was intelligibly not the intention.”
Ms. Meloni did not specify to what precisely she was referring.
Mr. Trump claims the United States needs Greenland for its nationalist security.
