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The United States volition besides endure if President Donald Trump implements threats to enforce tariffs connected European countries opposing his plans to get Greenland, a French Minister said connected Sunday (January 18, 2026).
"In this escalation of tariffs, helium has a batch to suffer arsenic well, arsenic bash his ain farmers and industrialists," French Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard told broadcasters Europe 1 and CNews.
Mr. Trump has threatened to enforce a 10% tariff from February 1 connected each goods sent to the United States from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland.
All are portion of the European Union, but for the United Kingdom and Norway.
That levy would past beryllium accrued to 25% connected June 1 "until specified clip arsenic a woody is reached for the implicit and full acquisition of Greenland", said Mr. Trump, who claims the United States needs the Arctic island, an autonomous Danish territory, for its nationalist security.
An bonzer gathering of EU ambassadors has been called successful Brussels for Sunday (January 18, 2026) afternoon.
"The European Union has imaginable onslaught force" from a commercialized standpoint, Ms. Genevard said.
"This is simply a effect that indispensable beryllium handled with caution, due to the fact that this escalation could beryllium deadly — but it could besides beryllium deadly for the United States."
Any U.S. takeover of Greenland would beryllium "unacceptable", the curate added.
"It is wide that the Europeans volition not fto the United States bash arsenic it pleases," she said.
