"EU leaders gathered for a hastily arranged summit in Brussels on Thursday evening, hours after most of them had been in Davos for the World Economic Forum amid the furore over Greenland caused by US President Donald Trump. The emergency summit was originally supposed to discuss a response to threats of fresh tariffs over Greenland. But US President Donald Trump's nebulous announcement of a "deal" appeared to have taken this specter off the table, at least in the immediate term."
""I am very grateful that President Trump has distanced himself from his original plans to take over Greenland, and I am also grateful that he has refrained from imposing additional tariffs on February 1," Merz told reporters ahead of the summit. Merz also said that the EU countries "will have to strengthen the resilience and robustness of the European Union" going forward."
EU leaders convened a hastily arranged summit in Brussels after many attended Davos, meeting amid uproar over US President Donald Trump's Greenland remarks. The emergency meeting had been expected to address threats of fresh tariffs on Greenland, but Trump's nebulous announcement of a "deal" removed the immediate tariff threat. Leaders still faced unanswered questions about the nature of any agreement and concerns about US reliability under Trump. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed Trump's apparent climbdown and urged strengthening EU resilience. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called for a permanent NATO presence in the Arctic and Greenland for security.
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