Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron has sent a private message to Donald Trump offering to organise a G7 summit in Paris on Thursday in which Russia could be invited on the sidelines.

Trump posted this message on his Truth Social network in which Macron also proposes inviting Ukraine to the meeting as well as Denmark to discuss disagreements over Greenland.

The offer comes as Europe is weighing countermeasures after Trump threatened to impose tariffs on eight European countries in a bid to pressure the European Union over Greenland.

“My friend, we are totally in line on Syria. We can do great things on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” Macron had said in his message.

“I can set up a G7 meeting after Davos in Paris on Thursday afternoon,” Macron wrote, referring to the gathering of global elites in Switzerland where the US president is set to be in attendance.

“I can invite the Ukrainians, the Danish, the Syrians and the Russians in the margins” of the meeting, he added.

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