New Delhi, Jan. 21 -- The European Parliament on Wednesday halted its work on a trade agreement between the 27-member European Union and the United States, according to a lawmaker, after US President Donald Trump's continuous call for US control of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

The Parliament's trade committee on Wednesday delayed the vote indefinitely, raising questions about whether the agreement will ever be finalised.

In a statement, according to Bloomberg, Bernd Lange, chair of Parliament's trade committee, stated, "By threatening the territorial integrity and sovereignty of an EU member state and by using tariffs as a coercive instrument, the US is undermining the stability and predictability of EU-US trade re...