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Europe kind of found a bit of backbone.

We heard some language of the kind that we haven't really heard from European leaders before.

We do prefer respect to bullies and we do prefer of the kind that we haven't really heard from European leaders before.

We do prefer respect to bullies and we do prefer rule of law to brutality.

The threat of additional tariffs for security reasons is simply wrong.

There is a real lingering sense in Europe that something pretty fundamental has been broken.

It seems Donald Trump has finally chickened out over Greenland.

So can European leaders finally give a sigh of relief?

From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

Joining me is John Henley, the Guardian's Europe correspondent.

Thanks so much for being with us, John. It's really great to see you.

So walk me through what's happened, because obviously we've had a couple of weeks of pretty strident and aggressive threats from Donald Trump about his ambitions for Greenland,

whether to buy it or perhaps even use military force to take it. But he seems like he's been

walked back from the brink by European leaders. What's happened? Yes. So Trump addressed the

World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland yesterday.

And I think what's fair to say was a very keenly awaited speech.

I mean, it was a long and typically rambling.

I mean, I would say perhaps more rambling than usual.

It was an extraordinary watch in its sort of waywardness, some appalling outward racism, but also repeatedly calling Greenland Iceland in a way that we can assume he meant Greenland.

Yes, exactly. I mean, and it went off and he kind of digressed into, you know, his pet hate of wind energy and talked about uncontrolled immigration and how Europe was going to the dogs and what have you.

But the key point was that he did rule out the use of force to take Greenland. He said that he could, but he wasn't going to. And then a couple of

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