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EU halts US trade deal amid Trump's Greenland and tariff threats


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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a major state of the union speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Pascal Bastien)

European Parliament members on Wednesday blocked a vote to approve a US-European trade deal as President Donald Trump continued his threats to take over Greenland and added a 10% import tax on countries opposed to his mission.

"EU-US Deal on ice indefinitely!" Bernd Lange, the chairman of the European Parliament's international trade committee, said on social media. "Our sovereignty & territorial integrity are at stake. Business as usual impossible."

In July, the EU and the U.S. solidified a preliminary agreement on tariff and trade issues known as the Turnberry Deal when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Trump's golf club in Turnberry, Scotland.

"Given the continued and escalating threats, including tariff threats, against Greenland and Denmark, and their European allies, we have been left with no alternative but to suspend work on the two Turnberry legislative proposals until the US decides to re-engage on a path of cooperation rather than confrontation, and before any further steps are taken," European Parliament said in a statement.

As part of the deal, European goods were capped at 15%, sparing sectors like pharmaceuticals and semiconductors from Trump's threats of triple-digit tariffs.

Terms that the 27-nation bloc agreed to included investing $600 billion into the U.S. by 2028, purchasing $750 billion of American energy, procuring $40 billion in U.S. semiconductors and increasing purchases of military equipment.

“This Framework Agreement will put our trade and investment relationship — one of the largest in the world — on a solid footing and will reinvigorate our economies’ reindustrialization,” a joint EU statement read.

The update comes after Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, dismissing concerns that he would use force to acquire the semi-autonomous territory.