Trump said the EU would ‘100%’ carry out its threat of Greenland tariffs as it pledged to protect its interests.

Donald Trump has vowed to act “100 percent” on threats to impose tariffs on European countries that oppose his demands to take control of Greenland.

European allies united around Greenland’s sovereignty. Denmark’s foreign minister stressed that the US president cannot threaten the ownership of Denmark’s semi-autonomous territory.

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper reiterated Britain’s position that Greenland’s future is determined “by Greenlanders and Danes alone.”

On Monday, President Trump insisted he would push through threatened tariffs on goods coming into the United States from Britain and seven other NATO allies, without ruling out the possibility of using force.

When asked by NBC News whether he would use force to occupy Greenland, President Trump responded, “No comment.”

The US president said he would impose a 10% tariff on Britain on all goods sent to the US from February 1, rising to 25% from June 1, until a deal was reached for the US to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

President Trump said the same measure would also apply to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, members of NATO, the defense alliance founded in 1949.

Asked whether he would continue to act on the tariff threat, Trump told NBC News, “I will 100 percent do that.”

“Europe should be focused on the war with Russia and Ukraine, because frankly, we see what that war has done to them. That’s what Europe should be focused on, not Greenland,” Trump added.

Denmark has warned that US military action in Greenland could spell the end of NATO. In recent days, Greenland has received support from European Union member states. Some even sent a small number of troops to Greenland last week in a symbolic move.

But Trump followed that arrangement by announcing tariffs on eight NATO allies.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lökke Rasmussen said Europe must show Trump that the threat of tariffs “is not the way forward.”

“There is a line we cannot cross,” he told Sky News. “The ownership of Greenland cannot be threatened. I have no intention of escalating this situation.”

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the alliance would continue to work with Denmark and Greenland on Arctic security.

The European Union will hold an emergency summit for its leaders in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how to respond to Trump’s latest threat to occupy Greenland.

“The EU has no intention of starting a fight, but we will stand our ground,” EU foreign policy chief Kaza Callas said.

“But threats of a deal are not the way to solve this problem,” Kallas added. “Sovereignty is not for trade.”

This comes amid revelations of a text exchange between President Trump and the Norwegian prime minister, showing the US president blaming Norway on Sunday for failing to win him the Nobel Peace Prize.

In a response seen by the BBC, Jonas Gahr Støre explained that an independent committee, not the Norwegian government, had awarded the award to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in October last year.

“Norway’s position on Greenland is clear: Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this issue,” Støre added.

“Norway is in complete control of (the Nobel Prize) no matter what they say,” Trump said in an interview Monday, also referencing the text message exchange.

“They want to say they have nothing to do with it, but they have everything to do with it.”