The European Parliament has halted work on legislation needed to implement parts of a planned trade deal between the European Union and the United States, citing President Donald Trump’s tariff threats against several EU countries opposing his Greenland takeover bid as an attack on EU member states’ sovereignty.
Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee and the standing rapporteur for the United States, said in a Jan. 21 statement that lawmakers had been preparing to negotiate two “Turnberry” legislative proposals with EU governments, but would suspend work until Washington abandons what he called escalating threats and returns to cooperation.
