00:00Summoned to Brussels to discuss an escalating crisis, EU ambassadors will have an emergency meeting Sunday.
00:07They'll look for a united response to Donald Trump's threat to impose escalating tariffs on eight European countries
00:14until the purchase of Greenland is completed, 10% at the beginning of February and then 25% by summer.
00:22A response from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was swift on social media.
00:28Tariffs would undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral.
00:35Europe will remain united, coordinated and committed to upholding its sovereignty.
00:42President Macron had only just sent a symbolic detachment of French troops to conduct exercises with Danish soldiers charged with defending Greenland
00:51and was quick to link the situation to wider European security concerns.
00:56No intimidation nor threat will influence us, neither in Ukraine nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world where we are confronted with such situations.
01:05Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context.
01:09Over 2,000 kilometres away, braving the cold and the ire of the President of the United States,
01:17thousands in Greenland demonstrated against Donald Trump's plans to take over their territory
01:23and were further outraged by the tariff threats.
01:27I thought this day could not get any worse, but it just did.
01:32I am actually quite more shocked than I was before.
01:36Because I heard yesterday that he was trying to do it,
01:39but now when he's saying these specific countries, he's just arrogant and a very big bully.
01:45He does not care of anything.
01:46For now, these protesters and other residents of Greenland will have to wait and see
01:51what comes of discussions in foreign capitals regarding their future.
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