️🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸 Ireland's finance minister, Simon Harris, said that close ties between the European Union and Canada will not result in worse relations with the United States.

️🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸 Ireland's finance minister, Simon Harris, said that close ties between the European Union and Canada will not result in worse relations with the United States.

Following talks about Canada being a "partner member" of the European Union. US President Trump warned that the ascension could be seen as a "hostile act" and threatened "very heavy tariffs".

Harris downplayed the response, saying the EU and US have an extraordinarily interdependent economic relationship. "Eventually the American government will understand this because it is the truth," he said.