Article 72YYK Davos: Reeves urges leaders to keep cool heads over tariff threat in free trade call – business live

Davos: Reeves urges leaders to keep cool heads over tariff threat in free trade call – business live

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Graeme Wearden in Davos
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Rolling coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where European Commission president says Europe must respond to geopolitical shocks

Scott Bessent then denies that European Union countries, and the UK, could exercise the nuclear option" over the Greenland crisis, and dump their holdings of US Treasuries.

Asked how the Treasury Department, and the White House, would prepare for this, Bessent insists it is a completely false narrative", and claims the media are hysterical" over the issue.

I would say this is the same kind of hysteria that we heard on April 2nd. There was a panic.

What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out.

What president Trump is threatening on Greenland is very different than the other trade deals. So I would urge all countries to stick with their trade deals.

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