00:00Do you think Europe could have handled this perhaps a bit differently?
00:03Do you think some lessons have been learned?
00:05Perhaps Europe could have reacted earlier, louder, put on a more united front.
00:12Do you think any lessons have been learned or is it too early to tell?
00:14I think we are learning the right lessons from this first.
00:20And you would accept that Europe has done its best to accommodate, to understand, to not overreact to some of what has been said from Washington.
00:36And we made a trade deal in July.
00:39We have accommodated a number of points.
00:41We have shown capacity to try to understand where Mr. Trump is coming from.
00:46But as I said earlier, the recent weeks on the issue of interference in European political affairs and the issue of Greenland, they have deteriorated the climate.
00:59I understand and I support the way member states of the European Union and European leaders are reacting in the last few days.
01:07I think we were very clear saying there is a red line here.
01:11Partners don't challenge territorial integrity of other partners.
01:18Partners don't challenge the sovereignty.
01:21Partners don't threat to annex or invade or occupy parts of the territory of the other side.
01:29And this has been spelled out by our leaders in a very concrete way, in a very forceful way, I would say.
01:38And maybe this has something to do with the fact that the president has backtracked on his initial threats and initial assumptions.
01:47And my hope is that we can find now a good balance outcome from this unfortunate episode.
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