1326 GMT - EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas says that President Trump's threats to impose tariffs on some European countries to pressure Denmark into selling Greenland won't work. "Let me be clear, Greenland belongs to its people. No threat or tariffs will change that. Sovereignty is not for trade," she says. "Tariff threats will not pressure Denmark into handing over Greenland. They only risk making both Europe and the U.S. poorer and undermining our shared responsibility," she says at a European Parliament debate in Strasbourg, France. "We have no interest in picking a fight but we will hold our ground." (edith.hancock@wsj.com)
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1457 GMT - The European Parliament's vote to submit the EU's trade deal with South American countries for a legal opinion goes against the bloc's interests, Bernd Lange, a member of Germany's social democrat party and chair of the parliament's international trade committee, says. "This is what one calls an 'own goal'," he says in a LinkedIn post. Waiting for a judicial opinion could delay parliament's ability to vote to approve the deal itself. "Those against Mercosur should vote against in consent procedure instead of using delaying tactics under the guise of legal review," he says. The vote is very harmful to Europe's economic interests, he says. "Team Europe putting itself offside." (edith.hancock@wsj.com)
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