EU leaders come together against Trump’s threats, but avoid a commercial war

The Leaders of the twenty -seven They closed this Monday for the threats of the President of the United States, Donald TrumpTo take Greenland or to impose rates on Europe, to ensure that the block has to be tackle the urgency of strengthening your defense and find European financing mechanisms to face these costs, but without participating in one Commercial war With Washington.

While the Russian Ukraine -Vasia It has meant a paradigm shift that forces the European block to increase the military departure, to take more responsibility for safety on the continent and to find formulas to face Large military investmentsEuropean leaders at the Egmont Palacio in Brussels start the debate of the draft.

The informal top coincides with the return of Donald Trump to the White House, at a time when NATO members need military editions up to 5 % of GDP, while It’s about applying rates to Europe And threatens Euroatlántability with its claims with regard to Greenland, autonomous territory of Denmark.

Confronted with this, the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksenhas insisted that the island “is not for sale” and that “everyone must respect the sovereignty of all national states of the world.” After it has indicated that it has “great support from the EU partners”, it is open to have a greater military presence in the Arctic zone, both in Denmark and NATO to guarantee stability in the region.

About the strategic debate of the role of the European Union to strengthen its military muscle, the Danish leader has complained that Europe thinks “as if they were in peacetime”. “I am not saying that we are at war, but we have to change his mind, we need an urgency feeling,” he said before he met European counterparts.

“I don’t think panic should spread, but now we have to step forward and accelerate, because Russia and Putin are not only a threat to Ukraine, but for all of us, and we must be willing to defend ourselves,” said ” , said the leader Scandinava, who acknowledged that if the United States imposes “hard” rates, the EU will have to respond with a “collective and adequate response”.

French President, Emmanuel MacronHe pointed out that Trump’s statements encourage Europeans to be more united and active in the answer to their collective safety problem. ” It has therefore influenced the need to strengthen the industrial basis and to invest more in defense, always with “a European preference” when making military purchases.

“The priority is the strategic agenda and safety of our borders. And if they attack us in commercial matters, Europe, as a power retains, will have to be enforced and therefore respond,” he said about the commercial threats from Trump to European partners.

For his part, the Polish prime minister, Donald TuskHe has called to avoid “unnecessary and stupid commercial wars” with the United States, and although he has recognized a certain “surprise” for the approach to Trump and his threats about Greenland, he emphasized that the EU should defend their interests and should remain united.

“It is the first serious test of our solidarity and unity in a strange context, because it is the first that we have these problems between allies,” he insistently acknowledged that it is a paradox that, in full roller threat and Chinese extension, Europe has a “conflict” with the United States.

The same argument has used the high representative of the EU for foreign policy, Kaja KallasWhat has warned that “there are no winners in commercial wars.” “If the United States starts with the commercial war, they will laugh, China will be. We are very connected. We need the United States and they also need us,” he said, warning the rates are bad for Employment and consumers on both sides on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

European sources indicate that the first part of the informal top is precisely devoted to transatlantic relationships, a point where leaders appreciated the relationship with Washington and the need to find solutions to the problems that can arise, with a strong consensus to be a Commercial to avoid war that would be clearly harmful to both parties.

The European industrial basis is the other stage of this debate, an issue on which the German Foreign Minister has spoken Olaf ScholzTo emphasize that Europeans are now aware of the importance of the development of the military sector on the continent.