Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Saturday rejected US President Donald Trump’s menace to European nations of accelerating tariffs if they didn’t let him purchase Greenland.
Taking to X, Swedish PM mentioned, “We is not going to let ourselves be blackmailed.” He additionally wrote that solely Denmark and Greenland have the authority to resolve on points regarding Denmark and Greenland.
“I’ll at all times get up for my nation, and for our allied neighbours.” He wrote that that is an EU situation that “impacts many extra international locations than these now being singled out.”
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Within the submit, Kristersson added that Sweden is now having intensive discussions with different EU international locations, Norway, and the UK for a coordinated response to the menace.
Earlier within the day, President Trump posted on Reality Social stating that 10 per cent tariffs would come into impact on February 1 on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands.
He additionally added that these tariffs would rise to 25 per cent on June 1 and would proceed until a deal is finalised for the US to buy Greenland.
Additionally learn: Trump’s Greenland tariffs: Checklist of nations hit by new 10% tariff; ‘very harmful scenario’
In the meantime, European Council President Antonio Costa on Saturday mentioned that the EU was very agency in defending worldwide regulation, Reuters reported.
In response to the query concerning the new tariff threats, he mentioned, “What we are able to say is that the European Union will at all times be very agency in defending worldwide regulation, wherever it might be, which in fact begins throughout the territory of the member states of the European Union”
Costa additionally knowledgeable that presently he’s coordinating a joint response from the member states of the European Union on this situation.
