Macron urges EU to hit back against Trump’s threats: ‘brutalisation of the world’


Europe must respond to US threats over Greenland and China’s industrial excesses, or else “passively accept ... vassalisation and bloc politics”, French President Emmanuel Macron warned in a speech at Davos on Tuesday.

Macron warned of the “brutalisation of the world”, as he urged the use of the EU’s most powerful trade weapon in response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to slap tariffs on European countries who last week sent troops to Greenland.

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