# Trump threatens EU over ‘hostile’ Canada association plan

https://mins.news/en/item/63365

- France 24, 2026-09-17 20:04 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/trump-threatens-eu-over-hostile-canada-association-plan

> US President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to impose very serious tariffs on Europe or halt trade with the EU if he viewed its proposal to make Canada the bloc’s first associate member as hostile. He dismissed the plan as “laughable.”

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