The European Commission president has called Donald Trump’s planned new tariffs an error and questioned how far he can be trusted, as the US president said there was “no going back” on his goal to control Greenland.
Ursula von der Leyen said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday that Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on imports from eight European countries that oppose a US takeover of the Arctic island was “a mistake, especially between longstanding allies”.
Appearing to call Trump’s trustworthiness into question, von der Leyen said the EU and US had “agreed to a trade deal last July, and in politics, as in business, a deal is a deal.
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