EU’s Top Diplomat: Adversaries Are 'Enjoying This' After Trump Clash (Full Interview)
January 23, 2026
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as posted by the channelEU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas on Greenland, Trade Deal, and Ukraine. She speaks to Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu.
BACKGROUND:
Europe is ready to get back to work with the US, wary, frustrated and knowing it can’t trust an ally it’s relied on for decades. With Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland off for now, European Union leaders at an emergency summit in Brussels Thursday said the bloc should now return to a to-do list that was already long before the US president nearly brought the transatlantic alliance to its knees.
His latest demands scarred the relationship, they said. But, practically speaking, Europe can’t ditch the US economically or otherwise. It still needs US trade, financial flows, energy, protection and, most pressingly, American security guarantees for Ukraine.
“There is certainly no reason for any kind of excessive optimism,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. “But very serious tasks still lie ahead of us, and we have wasted some time.”
“I really hope that we can now get back to serious discussions,” echoed Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
First up is a nearly finalized trade deal between the two sides, which was put on hold earlier this week as Trump demanded that EU and NATO ally Denmark hand over Greenland, one of its territories, threatening tariffs on European countries that opposed him.
Trump’s reversal, which came late on Wednesday after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, was enough to justify restarting the ratification process, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Thursday.
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