‘EU weighs €93bn retaliation’ to Trump and ‘Raducanu makes fine start’
The repercussions of Donald Trump’s tariff threat against EU allies who oppose his campaign to annex Greenland were reflected in newspapers on Monday. European leaders are considering a plan to impose tariffs worth 93 billion euros on US goods in response, the Guardian said. The newspaper states that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met with Trump and told him that his economic attack on NATO allies was wrong.
The Times focuses on the UK’s role in all this, highlighting that Sir Keir Starmer will give an “emergency speech” later today under the title ‘Prime Minister warns of downward spiral in US tariffs debate’.
The Financial Times details that possible retaliatory tariffs are being prepared to give European leaders an advantage in key meetings with the US president at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
“Europe is issuing a warning to Trump” resonates in the Independent. Elsewhere, the paper fills in the picture gap with the punches of Emma Raducanu, who began her Australian Open campaign with an emphatic win over Thailand’s Mananchaya Sawangkaew.
Raducanu is a popular image choice on many front pages, and the Daily Express accompanies the image of her celebrating her victory with the headline “Smiling Emma wins after slow start”. Its main story, like most of the others, is about tariffs and focuses on Europe’s warning that Trump’s threat will “tear NATO apart.” He also quotes Russia’s response to the dispute, hailing it as the “collapse of the transatlantic union”.
While the Daily Mail states that Western leaders warned the US president that his threat carries the risk of a “dangerous downward spiral” in relations, the Daily Mail comments that “NATO is now ‘heading towards disaster’ in the Trump debate.”
i Paper calls the Row the “biggest crisis” and “biggest threat” to hit the NATO alliance in decades.
The Daily Mirror’s headline summarizes what happened as “Trump’s Greenland madness” and points out that Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey called on the King to cancel his planned visit to the USA in April, saying that Britain “should not be a doormat for usurpers”.
On the other hand, according to Metro, a new survey reveals that tea breaks are a thing of the past for millions of workers, with only half getting up from their desks to go to the toilet and a third rarely leaving their work area.
Need an antidote for Blue Monday, measured as the day of the year with the lowest social mood? Daily Star reports that Bez, whom he happily describes as the “dancing maracas star”, will hit the road again in March as part of his 35th anniversary tour with the rock band Happy Mondays. The newspaper’s headline was “Don’t worry… Bez is happy” and the newspaper promised to “cheer you up every day of the week”.
Most recently, The Sun broke the news that former Little Mix star Jesy Nelson and fiancé Zion Foster had split after four years together.
