Oliver Crook

They're opening a consulate actually in Greenland starting in February.

They say that that is going to be a diplomatic and political message, a signal that they would like to send.

But we should say, you know, this is all about trying to explore different frameworks that the Europeans could potentially use.

construct in order to assuage some of the fears of the President of the United States, but it's also when you have more and more international forces on this territory.

Again, we don't really believe that the United States is going to launch a military campaign, but potentially that gets more difficult when you have representation from a number of different NATO allies.

What we heard from the president yesterday, he is not interested in leasing the territory.

He's not interested in a temporary solution.

He's interested in ownership.

So the Europeans are trying to address the security part of that.

But if this for Donald Trump is more about exploiting the resources of Greenland or potentially just expanding the U.S.

landmass for his own legacy and for his own interests, that is going to be a very difficult thing for the Europeans to convince him.

Apple has to obviously step up in terms of whichever LLM they want to use.

And to my mind, you know, Google is the most obvious choice.

We're here joined by Maro Sefcovic, who is the Trade Commissioner for the European Union.

We have so much to talk about, about the relationship with the United States, China, Mercosur, this Latin American trade deal that's supposed to be signed this weekend.

We'll see if we get to that.

Commissioner, thank you so much for joining us here.

I'd like to begin with the negotiations with the United States, because I think a lot of people are not very clear on where we are, particularly on the negotiations for steel and aluminum, those 50 percent tariffs.

What progress has been made?

Where are we right now?