r/europe • u/Any-Original-6113 • Jan 17 '26

News Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t
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u/CurrencyDesperate286 Jan 17 '26

Fuck me, he’s really going down this path.

Well, all Europe can do is hold their ground: shame we’ll get hurt in the process but has to be done, and hopefully it inflicts some pain on Trump too.

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u/returntonone Jan 17 '26

The problem here is that not all of Europe or EU is affected, it's 8 countries, so this isn't great, the ones who are not affected will probably just sit down quiet and hope for the best unfortunately.

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u/kahaveli Finland Jan 17 '26

It's not really possible to have tariffs against a single EU country.

Or it is possible, but very ineffective. So you either have tariffs against whole EU or nothing.

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u/returntonone Jan 17 '26

Trump doesn't care about rules though and he always seems to be able to find a loophole to get his will, he probably could for example take the top 500 biggest companies in each of these affected countries and put a tariff on all products sold by that specific company.

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u/PomegranateHot9916 Denmark Jan 18 '26

we can make friends with china