{"id":705404,"date":"2026-01-19T01:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/705404\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:41:15","slug":"trumps-greenland-tariffs-have-blown-up-the-eu-appeasement-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/705404\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Greenland tariffs have blown up the EU &#8216;appeasement&#8217; plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula von der Leyen was preparing to claim a rare victory on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/01\/18\/economy\/eu-mercosur-trade-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sealing a trade pact with South America\u2019s biggest economies.<\/a> U.S. President Donald Trump had other ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Moments before von der Leyen stepped to the podium in Paraguay, Trump dropped a blistering announcement: He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/01\/18\/world\/politics\/trump-greenland-europe-focus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piling more tariffs on Europe over its support for Greenland.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the European Union\u2019s top executive, von der Leyen was suddenly in an unexpected spotlight as people waited to see if she would publicly rebuke the U.S. president\u2019s latest threat to unravel alliances built over decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ursula von der Leyen was preparing to claim a rare victory on Saturday, sealing a trade pact with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,1699,3055,366,479,1201,1017,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-705404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-global-economy","14":"tag-greenland","15":"tag-tariffs","16":"tag-trade","17":"tag-u-s","18":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115919223800455966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}