{"id":26933,"date":"2026-01-19T07:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=26933"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:14:31","slug":"the-big-bazooka-a-powerful-instrument-which-up-until-now-has-never-been-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=26933","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bazooka, a powerful <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">instrument<\/span> which up until now has never been used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/18\/europe-diplomats-crisis-talks-trump-tariffs-greenland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">France\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron, called on fellow leaders to activate the EU\u2019s powerful anti-coercion instrument \u2013 commonly known as the \u201cbig bazooka\u201d \u2013 if Trump went ahead with his tariff threats, French media reported, citing his team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">After the talks broke up, the head of the European Council Ant\u00f3nio Costa announced an emergency EU summit, which is likely to take place on Thursday. The EU, he said, showed \u201creadiness to defend ourselves against any form of coercion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Italy\u2019s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said Trump\u2019s tariffs would be a mistake, and the Dutch foreign minister, David van Weel, described the US president\u2019s threats to allies as \u201cblackmail\u201d, as reaction from European leaders continued to pile up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The anti-coercion law, which has so far never been used, enables the EU to impose punitive economic measures on a country seeking to force a policy change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: France\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron, called on fellow leaders to activate the EU\u2019s powerful anti-coercion instrument \u2013 commonly known as the \u201cbig bazooka\u201d \u2013 if Trump went ahead with his tariff threats, French media reported, citing his team. After the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=26933\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}