Washington’s increasingly hostile talk on Greenland has prompted some EU capitals to consider reaching for its relatively new, never-used economic kill-switch power.
The yet-untested Anti-Coercion Instrument is a law that entered into force in late December 2023 giving the EU a mechanism for a collective response when a member of the bloc is being pressured into "making a particular choice by applying, or threatening to apply, measures affecting trade or investment."
