Keir Starmer says Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs over Greenland is ‘completely wrong’
Keir Starmer responds to Trump’s tariff threat over Greenland
- The US president has announced plans to impose a 10 per cent tariff on the UK and several other European countries, threatening to increase it to 25 per cent from 1 June, over their opposition to a US takeover of Greenland.
- The US president justified the tariffs by claiming "world peace" is at stake and that only the US can prevent China and Russia from controlling the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
- Sir Keir Starmer condemned the tariffs, saying that applying them to allies “for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is completely wrong" and that Greenland's future is a matter for its people and Denmark.
- European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and the EU Council, strongly rejected the tariff threats, with the EU calling an emergency meeting and vowing to uphold European sovereignty.
- The US president had previously expressed interest in acquiring Greenland in 2019, an idea which was then dismissed as "absurd" by Denmark.