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The European Union appears to be done trying to appease US President Donald Trump over his demands to be given control of Greenland.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that the EU is considering deploying what has been described as an economic “bazooka” at the US after Trump threatened European countries with new tariffs because of their refusal to cede Greenland, which has been part of the Danish kingdom for hundreds of years.

Specifically, the EU has an “anti-coercion instrument” that the Times writes “could be used to slap limitations on big American technology companies or other service providers that do large amounts of business on the continent.”

Enacting this policy would dramatically escalate tensions between the US and its European allies, but some international relations experts think the EU might have little choice given Trump’s fixation on seizing the self-governing........

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