Major EU states condemn Trump tariff threats; consider retaliation

Meanwhile, a source close to Emmanuel Macron said the French President was pushing to activate the Anti-Coercion Instrument, which could limit access to public tenders, investments or banking activity or restrict trade in services, in which the U.S. has a surplus with the bloc, including digital services. And Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is closer to the U.S. President than some other EU leaders, described the tariff threat on Sunday as "a mistake", adding she had spoken to Trump a few hours earlier and told him what she thought. German Christian Democrat lawmaker ‌Juergen Hardt also mooted what he told Bild newspaper could be a last resort "to bring ‍President Trump to his senses on the Greenland issue", a boycott of the soccer World Cup that the U.S. is hosting this year.