\u201cThings escalated, but now we are back on track,\u201d Rasmussen told reporters at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. The first meeting of the working group on Wednesday \u201cwent well and took place in a constructive atmosphere and tone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a little more optimistic today than I was a week ago,\u201d he added, but warned the dispute has not been \u201cresolved\u201d and more talks are planned.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s threats to seize Greenland roiled Europe and fractured transatlantic relations<\/a>, leading to calls from leaders for the EU to become more unified and independent to ensure its own security.<\/p>\n France and Germany went so far as\u00a0to call<\/a> for the EU to explore deploying<\/a> its \u201ctrade bazooka,\u201d the Anti-Coercion Instrument, before Trump backed down.<\/p>\n Rasmussen credited Trump\u2019s climbdown from launching a trade war to a \u201cvery strong European signal of solidarity\u201d over Greenland.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has become clear that the price for going down that path has been too high,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThings escalated, but now we are back on track,\u201d Rasmussen told reporters at the Foreign Affairs Council in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[6167,26,184,57,651,3933,2375,1596,2276,1536,240,4570,1632,188,76],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-arctic-ocean","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-jd-vance","tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mark-rutte","tag-security","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}