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This is News Hour from the BBC World Service.

Coming to you live from London, I'm Paul Henley.

Another day, another stream of statements from the US President

guaranteed to raise the blood pressure of European leaders on the receiving end.

As Donald Trump repeats his intention to take total control of Greenland from Denmark, his social media stream includes an AI map in the Oval Office showing Venezuela and all of North America, including Canada and Greenland,

colored in the U.S. flag. Here's what he said as he boarded Air Force One this morning.

We have to have it. They have to have this done. They can't protect it. Denmark, they're wonderful people.

And I know the leaders, they're very good people, but they don't even go there.

And, you know, because the boat went there 500 years ago and then left, that doesn't give you title to property.

The president is still bitter after his text exchange with the Norwegian Prime Minister about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

If anyone thinks Norway doesn't control the prize, they're just kidding, he told reporters.

And after the British Prime Minister advocated calm negotiation with a friend,

Mr Trump sarcastically called Britain a brilliant NATO ally

and said a recent part of Kier Stama's foreign policy was an act of great stupidity.

As they prepare for an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss impending US punishment tariffs,

European leaders will have to grapple with a dilemma,

whether to maintain the default position with Mr Trump flattery and deference,

or to say things have got unacceptable and take action accordingly.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland,

the head of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,

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