Philip Bleckensop
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jan
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Now, this is something that's never been used.
It's ideally there as a deterrent.
It offers a range of options, of countermeasures to what's called coercion or economic coercion.
And the argument would be that in placing tariffs on these countries, the
The United States would be coercing the European Union and the European countries to get in over Greenland.
The options include tariffs, but they also include perhaps restrictions on access to
investments to the banking activities in the block and also perhaps restrictions on the trade in services and this may be significant because unlike goods the us has a trade surplus in services with regard to the eu and of course we can think of certain services uh whether it be you know financial banking but also obviously digital services where the united states is dominant and obviously those companies rely on access to the european market
to make their money.
Another which has been raised by a German lawmaker is boycotting the World Cup, which is going to be hosted largely in the United States next year.
Now, obviously, we haven't got to that point yet.
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