Leaders from the European Parliament’s pro-EU majority are calling to suspend the EU-US trade agreement struck last summer after US President Donald Trump stepped up pressure on the bloc over Greenland, threatening to impose 10% tariffs on goods from several EU member states.
“The EPP is in favour of the EU–US trade deal, but given Donald Trump’s threats regarding Greenland, approval is not possible at this stage,” the group’s president, Manfred Weber (Germany), wrote on X, adding: “The 0% tariffs on US products must be put on hold.”
The European People’s Party is the largest political group in the Parliament.
Calls to freeze the deal also came from the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) and Renew, both part of the parliamentary pro-EU majority.
“The EU will not bow to intimidation,” S&D President Iratxe García Pérez wrote on X, while Valérie Hayer, who leads the liberal Renew group, wrote that “it is now time to move from a logic of dependence to a logic of deterrence.”
“@RenewEurope cannot vote in favour of the EU–United States Turnberry trade agreement,” she added.
The EU-US deal was concluded after weeks of trade tensions in 2025. Described as a “humiliation” by some European lawmakers, it includes 15% US tariffs on EU goods, while the EU committed to cutting most of its tariffs on US products to zero.
Members of the Parliament’s trade committee were due to vote this week on legislation implementing the EU tariff cuts.
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