STARMER CONDEMNS TRUMP’S TARIFFS- Starmer says applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is wrong.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday after talking to the leaders of Denmark, the EU and NATO, to say he believed “applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is wrong.”
A Downing Street press release said Starmer held phone calls with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte before speaking to President Trump.
The eight countries, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, along with Britain and Norway, already subject to U.S. tariffs of 10% and 15%, have sent small numbers of military personnel to Denmark’s vast Arctic island, as the row with the United States over its future escalates.
Trump earlier said that additional 10% import tariffs would take effect on February 1 on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and UK, further adding that the tariffs would increase to 25% on June 1 and would continue until a deal was reached for the U.S. to purchase Greenland.
