Dutch minister calls Trump's Greenland tariff threat 'blackmail'

Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel speaks to the media, on the day of a Council of Europe diplomatic conference to launch a convention establishing the International Claims Commission for Ukraine, aimed at handling compensation claims related to Russia's war in Ukraine, in The Hague, Netherlands, December 16, 2025. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

AMSTERDAM, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The ‌Netherlands' foreign minister on Sunday said that U.S. ‌President Donald Trump's threat to impose new tariffs on ‌European allies until they agree to sell Greenland to the United States is "blackmail".

"It's blackmail what he's doing ... and it's not necessary. It doesn't help ‍the alliance (NATO) and it also doesn't ‍help Greenland," David van Weel ‌said in an interview on Dutch television.