EU needs ‘greater clarity’ on Trump’s Greenland intentions after he backs down on tariffs, senior lawmaker tells CNBC

 The EU needs “clarity” on Donald Trump’s intentions after he cancelled his planned levies against eight countries over their stance on Greenland, a senior lawmaker has told CNBC.

EU lawmakers have removed the threat of tariff countermeasures against the U.S. after the U.S. president backed down.

Bernd Lange, a member of the European Parliament and chair of EU-US trade relations on its committee on International trade, said the bloc still needs “greater clarity” on Trump’s intentions after he declared on Truth Social he had a “framework” of a deal between the White House and NATO late Wednesday. Trump later told CNBC he had “the concept of a deal.”

“First of all, nobody knows exactly what the details of this so-called solution or deal are. We have to look to the details,” Lange told CNBC by phone on Thursday morning.

“The decision about such a solution or deal should be taken by Denmark and the people in Greenland, not between two important men,” he said, referring to the discussions between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos.