Europe has options but they are limited and not easy to co-ordinate. The 27 members of the European Union, plus Britain, Norway, Iceland and war-torn Ukraine, need a plan they can all live with. The initial question was whether to respond at all.

The dispute between the United States and Europe over the future of Greenland isn’t the first time the allies have been at loggerheads.

“European countries own $8 trillion of US bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined,” Saravelos pointed out. “In an environment where the geoeconomic stability of the western alliance is being disrupted existentially, it is not clear why Europeans would be as willing to play this part.”

T HE EUROPEAN UNION and Mercosur, a bloc of South American countries, first started negotiating their trade deal last century. In 1999 Bill Clinton was in the White House, Boris Yeltsin was stumbling around the Kremlin and China had yet to join the World Trade Organisation.

European countries are deploying military personnel to Greenland for a quick mission as the Trump administration is pushing to acquire the Danish territory.

The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries have formally signed a long-sought landmark free trade agreement

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation on Saturday sought to reassure Denmark and Greenland of their support following President Donald Trump's threat to punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.

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