Trump’s rift with Europe
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The European Union is still reeling after President Trump’s Davos appearance, even after he walked back some of his Greenland threats. A big question remains: How should the EU deal with Trump going forward? Financial Times correspondent Paola Tamma joins Kimberly from Brussels to explain Europe’s shifting approach to Trump and why officials haven’t yet taken more drastic measures to respond to his economic threats. Could a push to seek alternative trade allies be an antidote?
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| 0:19.7 | Hello, everyone. I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, or none of us is as smart as all of us. |
| 0:25.6 | Last week, a lot went down when President Donald Trump went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. |
| 0:31.5 | Trump escalated his demands for Greenland and then walked back on his threats after announcing a framework of a future deal on Greenland with NATO, but we still don't really have any details on that. |
| 0:42.3 | This whole situation has caused and sort of added to a lot of conversation outside of the United States about how the rest of the world should respond to Trump. |
| 0:58.2 | And it's put the economic relationship between the U.S. and Europe back into the spotlight. |
| 1:03.3 | We wanted to learn more about how all this news is being received outside the U.S. So today we're talking with Paola Tamas. |
| 1:05.6 | She's a correspondent for the Financial Times who covers the EU economy from Brussels, Belgium. |
| 1:10.9 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:12.2 | Thanks for having me. Hi, Kimberly. |
| 1:14.4 | Hi. So how have the Europeans been reacting to the news coming out of the United States lately? |
| 1:21.2 | Well, Shell Shocked is an often-use objective, but it definitely does fit the situation that we lived in one week ago, |
| 1:29.4 | when President Trump unleashed his threat of tariffs if he didn't get Greenland. |
| 1:35.6 | And the week just proceeded in a frenzy with European officials trying to make sense of this threat, |
| 1:42.6 | trying to diffuse it, and then eventually |
| 1:45.3 | taking a big collective sigh relief on the Wednesday when he announced that he would not use force. |
| 1:52.1 | And then another one, when it emerged that after a meeting with Secretary General of NATO |
| 1:56.5 | Mark Krota, there was the contours of a deal, which meant that, you know, the tariff threats |
| 2:02.1 | would be walked back. But that said, even though the initial issue is right now off the table, |
| 2:10.1 | there is a lot of heads scratching going on around Europe on how to deal with the US going |
| 2:15.4 | forward. And I think that this threat, which |
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