
Europe is weighing up its toughest trade response as tensions with Washington flare over Greenland – but Brussels insists it would rather talk than trade blows.
After US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on a string of European countries unless Greenland is ceded to the United States, the European Union finds itself contemplating a powerful – and so far unused – weapon in its trade arsenal: the so-called "anti-coercion" instrument.