The European Union stands ready to respond to President-elect Donald Trump should he try to use tariffs to try to push Denmark to sell Greenland.
Newsweek reached out to the Trump transition team and the Department of Commerce on Thursday afternoon for comment.
Why It Matters
Trump at a press conference last week told reporters that the U.S. needs Greenland “for national security purposes,” claiming that “people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security purposes.”
Trump then said he would “tariff Denmark at a very high level” if the country refused to let the U.S. buy Greenland, which is an autonomous island in the Arctic Circle.