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Gavin Grey: European correspondent discusses growing tension around Trump's demands for Greenland · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So the UK we go, Gavin Gregg, good morning to
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  Speaker 1: you either, Andrew. So the European Union's twenty seven ambassadors
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  Speaker 1: are all having a chinwere to discuss America's desire for Greenland.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of anger, I think, reading between
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  Speaker 2: the lines, there's also a great deal of apprehension. So Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
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  Speaker 2: the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom all putting
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  Speaker 2: out a joint statement. They said that tariff threats undermine
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  Speaker 2: transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. So, of
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  Speaker 2: course this is in response to Donald Trump, the US President,
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  Speaker 2: announcing that those countries that support Greenland and disagree with
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  Speaker 2: American attempts to either buy it or take it over
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  Speaker 2: militarily or take it over diplomatically, that those countries would
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  Speaker 2: face tariffs for ten percent from the first rising to
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  Speaker 2: twenty five percent in June. And there have been thousands
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  Speaker 2: of people protesting on the streets of Denmark, Greenland comes
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  Speaker 2: under the Kingdom of Denmark, and thousands of people as
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  Speaker 2: well in Greenland protesting against this, and France threatening something
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  Speaker 2: called the anti Coercion instrument. It's never been used by
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  Speaker 2: the EU but it basically would give them the power
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  Speaker 2: to really enhance and retaliate their action within international law.
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  Speaker 2: We really don't quite know what it means because it's
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  Speaker 2: never been used. But Andrew, things are very very serious.
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  Speaker 1: This is true, and good on Europe for no longer
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  Speaker 1: captelling and appeating. They're they're actually trying to They're actually
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  Speaker 1: finding the gats a little bit here. Meanwhile, to Tony Blair,
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  Speaker 1: the former UK Prime Minister has got his fingers into
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East game.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, fingers in yet another pie. So this is the
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  Speaker 2: so called the Board of Peace, which of course the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration is setting up, and it has asked the
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  Speaker 2: former UK Prime Minister, so Tony Blair, to be a
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  Speaker 2: founding executive member of that boarder piece, alongside the U
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  Speaker 2: S Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Now it is said
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  Speaker 2: that although Donald Trump will act as chair of the Board,
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  Speaker 2: it's part of his twenty point peace plan to end
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  Speaker 2: the war course between Israel and Gaza. Tony Blair course
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  Speaker 2: famously Prime Minister here from nineteen ninety seven to two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and seven, but famously took the UK into the
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  Speaker 2: Iraq War in two thousand and three and has since
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  Speaker 2: been serving as the Middle East end boy for the
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  Speaker 2: quartet of international powers that is America, European Union, Russia
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  Speaker 2: and the United Nations. Now plenty of people are saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: hang on a minute, this is all well and good,
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  Speaker 2: but where are the Palestine? Where are the Palestinians in
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  Speaker 2: this particular board. And you know, Tony Blair not the
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  Speaker 2: best record, one might argue, with his record of going
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  Speaker 2: to war with Iraq. So yeah, plenty of people questioning
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  Speaker 2: those posts currently being unveiled.
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  Speaker 1: He is, No, He's not Muslim's favorite person. Gavin Gray
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  Speaker 1: from the UK. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge.
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