The European Union’s foreign policy chief has warned that the bloc will “stand its ground” against Donald Trump’s tariff threats and that it has a “set of tools” to protect its interests.
Kaja Kallas met today in Brussels with Denmark’s Minister of Defence and Greenland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Telegrafi reports.
“Arctic security is a shared transatlantic interest and one we can discuss with our American allies,” she wrote on X following the meeting.
“But tariff threats are not the way to do this. Sovereignty is not for trade. We have no interest in starting a war, but we will stand our ground. Europe has a range of tools to defend its interests,” she added.
Kallas is likely referring to the EU’s anti-coercion instrument, which would allow the bloc to impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States, restrict U.S. investment and trade with Europe, and limit access to the EU’s single market.
It is the bloc’s most powerful trade weapon and has never been used before.
