A group of U.S. senators and representatives received a chilly reception in Europe this week as they arrived for a bipartisan fence-mending expedition where their comparative deficit of influence and power compared with the president was on full display.
Donald Trump began the week with threats to implement tariffs against the U.K. and several other European countries, including Denmark, if the NATO ally refuses to make a deal to cede the territory of Greenland to the United States, a stunning demand that threatens to fracture relationships in the NATO alliance.