JD Vance claims European allies are really behind Trump’s desires on Greenland - JD Vance’s comments come after the president of the European Union threatened a ‘unflinching, united and proportional’

By Paritosh Bansal and Michel Rose DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 20 (Reuters) - European leaders, rattled by Donald Trump's latest global gambit, are looking to present a united front in Davos, as CEOs warned against an emotional response to the U.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued international aggression.

Trump is one of more than 60 heads of state or heads of government at this year's edition of the week-long World Economic Forum, where nearly every speaker directly addressed the latest dramatic moves from Washington.

President Trump and his administration rolled out the Board of Peace initiative for Gaza in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, featuring leaders of more than 20 countries that notably did not include major European Union allies.

The split between ideological allies showed the limits of the U.S. president’s with-me-or-against-me politics, and a key obstacle to cooperation among nationalist parties.