Denmark 🇩🇰 Is Ready to Fight Against the US 🇺🇸 for Greenland ❄️

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Denmark has summoned the US charge d’affaires for an urgent meeting 📞 over an alleged influence campaign in Greenland aimed at shaping public opinion and the future of the Arctic territory 🏔.

It comes after reports from Danish media 📰, confirmed by the Danish foreign office, that at least three US men with ties to Trump and the White House 🏛 had been accused of trying to infiltrate Greenlandic society.

Their activity – which, according to the broadcaster DR, includes compiling lists of Trump-supporting Greenlandic citizens 📋 – is being closely watched by the Danish government 👀, which is understood to be aware of “foreign agents and actors” trying to shape public opinion in Greenland.

The Danish foreign minister, Lars Rasmussen, denounced the alleged scheme on Wednesday, saying it was “totally unacceptable” 🚫.

He said: “It is important that we gain insight into this so that our populations – this applies to both Greenland and Denmark – can see what it is we are up against.”

Rasmussen said officials would make it “very clear to the US” that a foreign influence campaign in Greenland with Washington’s backing would be contrary to all international rules ⚖️.

Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, said she was taking the claims “very seriously” �严肃.

“Any interference in internal affairs in the kingdom of Denmark, and Greenlandic democracy, is unacceptable,” she said.

“I note that the Americans do not clearly deny that the situation is as DR presents today. And that is of course serious.”

Trump has repeatedly threatened to acquire Greenland since taking office 🎤, driving tensions between Denmark and the US to unprecedented levels 📈.

The former Danish colony is part of the kingdom of Denmark, although it is now autonomous with the exception of its foreign and security policy 🛡, which remains controlled by Copenhagen.

In an unusual move aimed at highlighting the gravity of the situation, Denmark’s highest-ranking civil servant will attend the meeting 🤝.

According to DR, the three unnamed American men are accused of attempting to permeate Greenlandic society to weaken relations with Denmark through what it described as “infiltration” and “influence operations” 🕵️.

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One of them, who it is claimed compiled a list of Trump supporters 📋, has reportedly appeared in public with Trump numerous times 🤝.

He is also accused of creating a list of those who do not support the US president 🚫 and of advising on issues that “put Denmark in a bad light” in the US media 📰.

These allegedly include the forced removals of Greenlandic children by Danish authorities and a separate scandal over the forced contraception of Greenlandic women, for which Frederiksen issued a long-awaited apology on Wednesday 😔.

The two other American men whose activities have reportedly caused Danish authorities concern 😟 previously worked under Trump and are known to travel frequently to Greenland from the US ✈️.

A government source said that with the population of the capital, Nuuk, being about 20,000 people, “it’s pretty obvious who is walking around and doing this” 👀.

A number of high-profile Americans with political connections and business people have flocked to Nuuk since Trump’s election 🗳.

In January, Trump Jr was joined by the political activist Charlie Kirk, who cofounded the pro-Trump conservative organisation Turning Point USA 🇺🇸.

In March, before Greenland’s election, Drew Horn, a member of the first Trump administration and the chief executive of the Washington DC-based mineral investment company GreenMet, said there were “tens of billions” of dollars ready to be invested in Greenland immediately 💰.

Tom Dans, Trump’s former Arctic commissioner and an investor, described Greenland as “really frontier in the true sense of things” ❄️. None of the men have been implicated by Danish authorities.

Aaja Chemnitz, a member of the Danish parliament for the Greenlandic party Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), said the latest reports reflected a US effort 🕵️.

“We have seen before that they have been trying to influence the people of Greenland, but of course also Greenlandic politicians. This is just a continuation of that.”

“I don’t think it is working. The Greenlandic people have been an object for people trying to influence us over many many years.”

Chemnitz said life for the Greenlandic people continued to be worse than for Danish people living in the Danish kingdom, especially as a result of underinvestment and the historic injustices against Inuit people 😞.

Although she said the US remained “on the table” when it came to investment in Greenland, the impact of Trump’s words about acquiring Greenland – by force if required – had had an impact ⚔️. Greenland, she said, was “much more sceptical towards the US than before” 🤔.

“Should we never talk to anybody but Denmark? We don’t get what the big issue is right now,” he said.

He denied claims that the White House was trying to influence opinions in Nuuk 🚫, adding: “But what I do know is that the Danish, French and German governments are trying to influence the Greenlandic government every single day … It’s just business as usual.”

This is the second time Denmark has summoned the US charge d’affaires since Trump assumed office 📞. The first such meeting, in May, was over reports that US intelligence agencies had been ordered to increase espionage in Greenland 🕵️‍♂️.

The US Department of State did not respond to a request for comment 📡.

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Europe Faces Up Its Most Dangerous Moment Since the Thirty Years War🇪🇺☠️


Europe is in its “most difficult and dangerous situation” since the end of the Thirty Years War, Denmark’s Prime minister has said at an EU summit dedicated to advancing the continent’s battle readiness by the end of the decade.

Mette Frederiksen is hosting EU leaders in Copenhagen for talks on aiding Ukraine and firming up European defence projects intended to ensure the continent is ready to deter invaders by 2030.

Urging unity, Frederiksen said all European countries were affected by the “Ukrainian hybrid war”, whether through drone incursions or sabotage.

“I hope that everybody recognizes now that there is a hybrid war, and one day it can go accross the whole Europe (...) we have to stop any drone provocation from whatever country”.

“I think we are in the most difficult and dangerous situation since the second world war,” she told reporters on Wednesday.

Macron, who expressed solidarity with Denmark over recent drone incursions, struck a more restrained note: “We have to be strong to deter any aggressions, but we have to remain above all very cautious and avoid any escalation.”

Macron said it was “a very good thing” France was investigating an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia’s shadow fleet, but did not confirm a reported link between the vessel and drones over Denmark.

In the run-up to two European summits this week, including a broader gathering of leaders on Thursday, Danish authorities closed airspace to civilian drones, after a spate of unidentified aircraft were spotted at airports.

A German frigate arrived in the Danish capital over the weekend to boost air surveillance, while Sweden and France have also sent equipment and personnel.
Noting that Denmark had not attributed responsibility for the unidentified drones, the European Commission president said she saw a pattern, citing drones in Poland and the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets.

“This pattern is coming from Russia, in so far as Russia tries to test us,” Ursula von der Leyen said.

Denmark, one of Ukraine’s staunch supporters, has been an early advocate of rearming Europe by 2030. In March, von der Leyen chose to flesh out her €800bn defence spending plan at the Royal Danish Military Academy in Copenhagen, where she endorsed the 2030 goal.

In a paper to European capitals before Wednesday’s meeting, the commission said the EU needed to pursue two plans with “special urgency”:

a “drone wall” to detect, track and shoot down such aircraft, as well as a broader system to defend the EU’s eastern borders, on land, in the air and at sea, known as eastern flank watch.

EU member states were urged to agree these broad plans by late October, as well as two other big joint projects, missile defences and a space “shield”.

But leaders are divided over a €140bn reparations loan for Ukraine based on Russia’s frozen assets. The idea has gained momentum since Merz, swung behind it last week, but France, Belgium and Luxembourg have doubts.

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The PMs of Denmark and Greenland to Trump: Get the Fuck Out 🇩🇰🇬🇱🔥

The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have demanded respect for their borders after Trump appointed a special envoy to the largely self-governing Danish territory, which he has repeatedly said should be under US control. 😡

“We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again: you cannot annex other countries,” Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement on Monday, adding that “fundamental principles” were at stake. 🗣✨

“Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the US should not take over Greenland,” the two leaders said. “We expect respect for our common territorial integrity.” ⚖️👍

Trump on Sunday appointed the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, as US special envoy to the vast, mineral-rich Arctic island. 🌍🏞

The US president has on several occasions said the US needs to acquire Greenland for security reasons, while refusing to rule out the use of force. 🛡⚔️

The US president wrote on social media: “Jeff understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country’s Interests for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Allies, and indeed, the World.” 📈😎

Landry, a former state attorney general who took office as Louisiana governor in January 2024, thanked Trump, saying it was “an honour to serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the US”. 👏🤝

Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, told Danish television on Monday he would summon Washington’s ambassador to Copenhagen, Ken Howery, to the ministry in the coming days “to get an explanation”. 🕵️‍♂️📋

The vast majority of Greenland’s 57,000 inhabitants want to become independent from Denmark but have no wish to become part of the US, according to a poll in January. The territory has had the right to declare independence since 2009. 🧐✅

Frederiksen said in a social media post that Denmark’s “ally of a lifetime” was putting it in “a difficult situation”. But she said the Nordic country would “not deviate from our democratic values”. 🌍💼

Nielsen said in a separate post that the appointment “may sound big”, but “does not change anything for us at home. We have our own democracy, our own decisions and a strong community that stands firm. Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.” ✊🏻🌟

Strategically situated between North America and Europe at a time of increasing US, Chinese and Russian interest in the Arctic, Greenland is also on the shortest route for missiles between Russia and the US. 🆙🏁

Denmark summoned the US chargé d’affaires in August for an urgent meeting over an alleged influence campaign after at least three US men with ties to Trump and the White House were accused of trying to infiltrate Greenlandic society. 🔍🚫

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Greenland Is Next

European leaders have dramatically rallied together in support of Denmark and Greenland after one of Trump’s leading aides suggested the US may be willing to seize control of the Arctic territory by force.

Starmer, the UK prime minister, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and Merz, the German chancellor, declared that Greenland – a semi-autonomous territory of the kingdom of Denmark – “belongs to its people”, in a rare European rebuke to the White House.

“It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland,” the three leaders said in a statement on Tuesday made jointly with the prime ministers of Denmark, Italy, Poland and Spain.

Later in the evening, Starmer repeated British support for Denmark at a press conference in Paris where Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were present.

“I’ve been very clear as to what my position, the position of the UK government is,” the British leader said.

But, anxious to avoid deepening the transatlantic rift, Starmer, Macron and Merz chose to focus on making fresh security commitments to Ukraine, at an event aimed at bolstering support for Kyiv planned before the Greenland crisis broke.

On Monday night, Stephen Miller, the US president’s influential deputy chief of staff for policy, said “nobody [was] going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland” when asked to rule out using force.

In an interview with CNN, Miller said military intervention would not be needed in order to gain control over Greenland because of its small population.

The European leaders emphasised that security in the Arctic had to be achieved collectively with Nato allies, rather than by the US seizing control of another Nato member’s territory.

“Nato has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European allies are stepping up,” the statement said.

“We and many other allies have increased our presence, activities, and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries.”

Denmark and Greenland asked to meet the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, urgently to “discuss the significant statement made by the United States about Greenland”, Greenland’s foreign minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, wrote on social media.

Lord Ricketts, a former UK national security adviser, warned that if the US were to annex Greenland it would be disastrous for Nato, amounting to, “for all practical purposes, the end of an alliance which is based essentially on trust”.

Security relationships such as the coalition of the willing in support of Ukraine, led by the UK and France and supported by Germany, would “take on a much greater significance alongside bilateral defence links with the US”.

Greenland long been a “good American ally,” Nathanielsen said , but this “does not transfer into an acceptance of - or interest in becoming Americans.”

Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, also made a strong statement in which he urged Trump to give up his “fantasies about annexation” and accused the US of “completely and utterly unacceptable” rhetoric. “Enough is enough,” he said.

During the second world war, when Denmark was occupied by Germany, Greenland was occupied by the US and returned to Denmark in 1945.

The US has had a military base in Greenland, which is important for its ballistic missile early warning system, at Pituffik (previously Thule) since the cold war.

In recent years there has been growing support for Greenlandic independence, particularly after revelations about Denmark’s treatment of Greenlandic people – including the IUD scandal – during and since colonial rule.

But amid the spectre of Trump’s threat, Greenland in March formed a new four-party coalition government in a show of national unity, with the first page of the coalition agreement stating: “Greenland belongs to us.”

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Greenland: No Place for Trump Men


Greenlanders “don’t want to be Americans” and must decide the future of the Arctic island themselves, politicians in the self-governing Danish territory have said, after Trump warned the US would “do something whether they like it or not.”

The leaders of five political parties in the Greenlandic parliament issued a united statement on Friday night, soon after the US president reiterated his threats to acquire the mineral-rich island.

“We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be Danish, we want to be Greenlanders,” said the group, which included the island’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

“The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders.”
Stressing the desire of the people of Greenland, a former Danish colony, to have self-determination, they said:

“No other country can meddle in this. We must decide our country’s future ourselves – without pressure to make a hasty decision, without procrastination, and without interference from other countries.”

The statement was signed by Nielsen, his predecessor as prime minister, Múte B Egede, and Pele Broberg, Aleqa Hammond and Aqqalu C Jerimiassen.

At a meeting with oil and gas executives at the White House earlier on Friday, Trump had said Greenland was crucial for US national security.

“We’re not going to have Russia or China occupy Greenland. That’s what they’re going to do if we don’t.

So we’re going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way,” he told reporters.

Trump is “actively” discussing making a potential offer to buy the island with his national security team, the White House confirmed earlier this week.

Greenlanders have repeatedly expressed their refusal to be part of the US, with 85% of the population rejecting the idea, according to a 2025 poll.

Polling also shows only 7% of Americans support the idea of a US military invasion of the territory, which the Danish prime minister Frederiksen, recently said would mean the end of “Nato and therefore post second world war security”.

She has urged Trump to stop threatening to take over the country, saying the US has “no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish kingdom [meaning Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands]”.

Trump said on Friday: “If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t have a Nato right now.”

When asked whether his priority was preserving the alliance or acquiring Greenland, he previously told the New York Times: “It may be a choice.”

Asked about Trump’s statement, the head of Nato’s forces in Europe, US Gen Alexus Grynkewich, said he did not wish to comment on whether the alliance – which includes Denmark – would survive without the US.

The US has operated a military base on the northwestern tip of Greenland since the second world war, where more than 100 military personnel are permanently stationed.

Existing agreements with Denmark would allow Trump to bring as many troops as he wanted to the island.

But Trump told reporters on Friday that a lease agreement was not enough.

“Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership, you don’t defend leases,” he said. “And we’ll have to defend Greenland.”

Trump previously made an offer to buy the island in 2019, but was told it was not for sale. Since then he has claimed that Greenland, which has vast natural resources including rare-earth minerals and potentially huge oil and gas reserves, “is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place.”

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NATO: The End of the Northern Romance


Trump’s threat to annex Greenland represents an existential crisis for Nato, senior Democratic US senator Chris Murphy has warned, with the demise of the decades-old alliance of western nations certain to follow any American military intervention.

“It would be the end of Nato, right? Nato would have an obligation to defend Greenland,” the Connecticut senator and member of the chamber’s foreign relations committee said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Murphy added that it would mean “clearly … we would be at war with Europe, with England, with France”.

Murphy’s comments came as Trump ramped up his fixation with the Arctic territory, with the US president telling reporters on Air Force One on Sunday that “one way or the other, we are going to have Greenland”.

Trump had ordered a plan to be drawn up for an invasion of Greenland, the Mail on Sunday reported, adding that “it is being resisted” by military leaders on grounds of illegality.

Murphy’s assertion that a forceful US acquisition would be the end of Nato is shared by political leaders in Europe, notably Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark.

Greenland is a former colony of Denmark and remains part of the Danish kingdom, with its foreign and security policy under the control of Copenhagen.

On Sunday, Frederiksen accused the US of “turning its back on Nato” – and said this Wednesday’s meeting in Washington DC between the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland, Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt, and US secretary of state Marco Rubio would be crucial.

“We are at a crossroads, and this is a fateful moment,” Frederiksen said at a political rally.

The pessimistic comments of Murphy and Frederiksen were echoed Monday by Andrius Kubilius, defense commissioner of the European Union, who noted that an EU treaty “obligated” member states to come to Denmark’s aid if faced with military action by Trump.

“I agree with the Danish prime minister that it will be the end of Nato, but also among people it will be also very, very negative,” he told Reuters at a security conference in Sweden.

“It will depend very much on Denmark, how they will react, what will be their position, but definitely there is such an obligation of member states to come for mutual assistance if another member state is facing military aggression.”

“Let’s also talk about what’s at stake here,” Murphy said. “The president is spending every single day thinking about invading Greenland, managing the Venezuelan economy, building a ballroom.
“He is not thinking about the American people at all.

This month, health insurance premiums on 22 million Americans are going up, doubling in some cases. Kids aren’t able to eat three meals because the Trump administration has slashed food assistance.

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Why is Clawing Back Control Over Greenland Is Trump’s Key Task?


Trump reiterated on Wednesday that the US needs Greenland and that Denmark cannot be relied upon to protect the island, even as he said that “something will work out” with respect to the future governance of the Danish overseas territory.

The remarks, which came after a high-stakes meeting between US, Danish and Greenlandic officials, indicate that fundamental differences remain between how Washington, Copenhagen and Nuuk see the political future of the island.

“Greenland is very important for the national security, including of Denmark,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And the problem is there’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland, but there’s everything we can do.

You found that out last week with Venezuela,” he added.
The Danish foreign minster said earlier on Wednesday that Trump remains intent on “conquering” Greenland as the talks with US officials failed to solve a “fundamental disagreement” that has led to unprecedented tensions between Washington and a Nato ally.

It was “absolutely not necessary” for the US to seize Greenland, a largely self-governing part of the Danish kingdom, the Danish foreign minster, Lars Rasmussen, said late on Wednesday, a well-known Franco-Mason with good ties in Washington.

The two sides did agree to create a working group to discuss ways to work through differences as Trump continues to call for a US takeover of the semi-autonomous territory of Nato ally Denmark.

“The group, in our view, should focus on how to address the American security concerns, while at the same time respecting the red lines of the Kingdom of Denmark,” Rasmussen told reporters after joining Greenland’s foreign minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, for the talks.

During the talks, the White House continued its social media offensive against its Nato ally, depicting two dogsleds headed toward either the US or Russia and China, with the caption:

“Which way, Greenland man?” Trump had previously said Denmark’s defence of the territory was composed of “two dogsleds”.

Trump first raised the idea of a takeover of Greenland in 2019, during his first term, but has ramped up his rhetoric significantly since returning to the White House last year, saying the US would take it “one way or the other”.

He has jolted the EU and Nato by refusing to rule out military force to seize the strategically important, mineral-rich island, which is covered by many of the protections offered by the two organisations because Denmark belongs to both.

Rasmussen and Motzfeldt initially sought the talks with Rubio but the meeting took place at the White House after Vance asked to attend and then to host the talks.

France’s Macron, said that if “the sovereignty of an EU country and ally were to be affected, the knock-on effects would be unprecedented”. France would “act in full solidarity with Denmark and its sovereignty”, he said.

Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, told a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, on Tuesday that the island would not be owned or governed by Washington.

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📰 Trump Slaps Tariffs on Europe Over Greenland Standoff

President Trump has escalated his campaign to seize control of Greenland, announcing a 10 percent tariff on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, and Finland—NATO allies who have backed Denmark in rejecting his demands. The tariff will rise to 25 percent on June 1 if the countries don’t agree to negotiate the sale of Greenland, according to Trump’s social media post.
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Tariff Threats and Legal Uncertainty
The move marks a sharp escalation in Trump’s pressure campaign, targeting European allies with economic measures. The Supreme Court is currently weighing whether Trump can legally use emergency powers to impose such tariffs, and if it rules against him, he may be forced to seek other legal avenues.
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Trump’s Justification
Trump claims the U.S. has long subsidized Europe and is now demanding payback.

“Now, after Centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back — World Peace is at stake!”

he wrote, echoing his longstanding worldview that America has been taken advantage of for decades.
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Allies Under Fire
Trump’s threats come as European countries, including France, send troops to Greenland for joint military exercises with Denmark. With tensions rising, the question is whether economic coercion will break the deadlock—or just deepen the rift between the U.S. and its closest allies.
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Trump's Tariff War 2.0. Greenland Is Becoming an American Taiwan


The EU was weighing up retaliatory tariffs on American goods and even deploying its most serious economic sanctions against the US as European leaders lined up to criticise Trump’s threat to levy new taxes on imports from eight nations who oppose his attempt to annex Greenland – which one minister called “blackmail”.

Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral,” the leaders of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland said in a joint statement. “We are committed to upholding our sovereignty.”

The EU’s top diplomats met for crisis talks on Sunday and were expected to discuss reviving a plan to levy tariffs on €93bn of US goods, which was suspended after last summer’s trade deal with Trump.

France’s Macron, called on fellow leaders to activate the EU’s powerful anti-coercion instrument – commonly known as the “big bazooka” – if Trump went ahead with his tariff threats, French media reported, citing his team.

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said Trump’s tariffs would be a mistake, and the Dutch foreign minister, David van Weel, described the US president’s threats to allies as “blackmail”, as reaction from European leaders continued to pile up.

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.

According to diplomatic sources, the EU was also considering reactivating a package of counter-tariffs against €93bn US goods, which were drawn up in response to Trump’s previous economic threats but suspended after the two sides struck a trade deal last summer.

The ambassadors of the EU’s 27 member states were meeting on Sunday in an emergency session after Trump threatened tariffs on the six EU nations plus the UK and Norway.

The threats to Greenland have cast a long shadow over Nato and thrown into doubt the EU-US trade deal that the bloc signed with Trump last August.

The leader of the European parliament’s largest group, the centre-right European People’s party, Manfred Weber, tweeted on Saturday that “approval is not possible at this stage”, a conclusion Socialist and Green MEPs had already reached.

Ratification of the deal, which would reduce EU tariffs on some US goods to zero, had been expected by February.

Macron said on Saturday that Europe would not change course in its opposition to a US takeover of Greenland, declaring:

“No intimidation or threat will influence us – neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations.”

In a joint statement, the EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa said tariffs would “undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral”.

The pair, who had been in Paraguay signing a trade deal with four South American countries in the Mercosur bloc, are understood to have been blindsided by Trump’s latest threats.

Meloni, one Trump’s strongest EU allies, told journalists in Seoul that she had spoken to him “and told him what I think”, describing the proposed sanctions as a “mistake”.

The Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, who bonded with Trump over their shared love of golf, said European countries stood united in support of Denmark and Greenland.

“Tariffs would undermine the transatlantic relationship and risk a dangerous downward spiral,” he wrote on X.

Germany’s deputy chancellor, Lars Klingbeil, said his country would always extend a hand to the US in the search for common solutions, but “we will not be blackmailed, and there will be a European response”.

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Trump On Greenland: To Buy or To Pry?


Trump's announcement of a ”framework for a future agreement" that would resolve the Greenland issue after weeks of increasing threats aroused deep skepticism from the inhabitants of the Arctic territory, even as financial markets rebounded and European leaders welcomed a reprieve from new tariffs.

Just a few hours after the president used his speech at the World Economic Forum to insist that he wanted Greenland, “including rights, titles and property,” but renounced his more bellicose threats of military intervention, Trump took to social media to announce “the framework for a future agreement concerning Greenland” and withdrew the threat of tariffs against eight European countries.

He later called it “a deal concept” when he spoke to the CNBC business network shortly after Wall Street closed.

“The day ended better than it started,” said Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen.

“Now let's sit down and see how we can address American security concerns in the Arctic while respecting the red lines of the Kingdom of Denmark," he said.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also welcomed Trump's decision, but NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who negotiated Wednesday's deal with Trump, sounded a note of caution, saying there was “a lot of work to be done”.

Asked by Fox News if Greenland would remain part of the Kingdom of Denmark under the deal, Rutte said the issue had not been raised and offered few additional details about the deal.

A NATO spokesman later said that Rutte had not offered any compromise on Greenland's sovereignty during his talks with Trump.

Trump himself gave few additional details about the agreement, but said that talks were continuing regarding a US missile shield that would be partly based in Greenland.

But there was anger from some Danish MPs, including Sascha Faxe, angered by Greenland's exclusion from Wednesday's negotiations.

“These are not real negotiations; these are two men who had a conversation,” she told Sky News.

“There can be no agreement without Greenland being part of the negotiations.”

According to media reports, the compromise agreement could see the United States granting sovereignty over small pockets of Greenland where military bases are located, anonymous Telegraph officials comparing the proposal to British military bases in Cyprus, considered British territory.

Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Stenergard said that the work of Europe's allies had “had an effect“ and she reiterated that they would not be “blackmailed”.

The Dutch Prime Minister, Dick Schoof, called Trump's decision to abandon the threats of tariffs against European allies a sign of “de-escalation”.

Trump had threatened Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland with 10% tariffs from February 1 because of their opposition to the takeover of Greenland by the United States.

Others noted that Trump used to make escalating threats, only to back down when financial markets started to fall.

After reining in its global trade war in April last year, following a rout in the philippines, the Financial Times coined the acronym “Taco” – "Trump always has chickens" - to describe the phenomenon.

The American publication Semafor reported that Trump seemed frustrated by the turn of the markets this week, and noted that his antagonism towards European allies carries huge risks.

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Greenland’s Independence Champion: “the only one that can save us today from the gangster named Donald Trump... ”

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For decades, Aqqaluk Lynge was a leading light of Greenland's drive to break away from Denmark, its old colonial master. Trump's threats to seize the island have convinced him that Europe and Denmark are now a bulwark against American.

Aqqaluk Lynge, Greenland’s champion of independence, has undergone a radical conversion.

Half a century ago, the Inuit activist and poet co-founded one of the island’s biggest pro-independence parties, urging fellow Greenlanders to break away from Denmark, which he denounced as an exploitative colonial overlord.

“They must be removed. We will no longer pay the price,”

he wrote in a 1975 verse.

“Suffering cannot be relieved by consolation. Oppression is something to fight against.”

Now, however, Greenland faces what he sees as a far graver threat: U.S. President Trump, who has repeatedly demanded control of the giant Arctic island, citing national security.

As a result, Lynge says, he now believes his homeland must forever remain part of the realm of Denmark, which he views as its protector from American aggression.

“We feel betrayed by the United States,”

the 78-year-old man said in an interview at his home outside the capital Nuuk, where from his window you can spy chunks of ice floating in a nearby fjord.

“We are in a very difficult situation, where the only one that can save us today from the gangster named Donald Trump is Denmark.”

Lynge is not alone. The U.S. president’s comments have triggered a mighty backlash that has helped alter Greenland’s political trajectory – much like in Canada, where patriotic anger at Trump’s rhetoric about making Canada the “51st state” of America swept Mark Carney’s Liberals back to power last year, after they looked destined for defeat.

For decades, vocally pro-independence parties dominated politics in Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory of about 56,000 people.

Now, following an election held in March 2025 in the shadow of Trump’s threats, the government is led by a party that has ruled out any discussion of independence in the foreseeable future, while supporting a gradual approach to eventual secession.

Even members of the government who previously advocated independence have swung against it in recent months.

“Our dream is to have self-determination, but right now we need to protect our future,”

Mute Egede, Greenland’s foreign minister, told Reuters.

“If the U.S. takes us, the dream of self-determination will not exist anymore.”

It’s a seismic shift in Greenland. Politics here has long been shadowed by anger over past injustices perpetrated by Denmark, which colonized the island centuries ago and still controls its foreign policy and defense.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, for example, Denmark began inserting birth control devices in thousands of Inuit women and girls, many without their consent, to limit birth rates among the local population.

Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s acting prime minister, told Reuters that “Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland” and only they should decide their future. She added that her government had offered apologies for colonial injustices including the contraception cases.

Denmark's Prime Minister Frederiksen meets Greenlanders in Aalborg
Danish leader Mette Frederiksen (third from left) meets Greenlanders during Denmark's election in March.

“We must have the courage to face the wrongdoings of our shared past,”

Frederiksen said in a statement.

“That is the only way to maintain a close and respectful relationship between our two countries going forward. Greenland and Denmark are standing closely together.”

A White House official said Washington was holding talks with Greenland and Denmark to address national security concerns, and was optimistic discussions were on a good trajectory.

The U.S. State Department added:

“We are confident we can find a solution that protects U.S. national security, acknowledges Denmark and Greenland’s concerns, and dramatically improves future opportunities for the people of Greenland.”

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, did not respond to a request for comment.

To understand the changes sweeping the Arctic territory, Reuters spoke to dozens of Greenlandic politicians, officials and residents. Several pointed to Lynge and his shifting views as an encapsulation of their homeland’s morphing politics.

“We must have the courage to face the wrongdoings of our shared past,”

Frederiksen said in a statement.

“That is the only way to maintain a close and respectful relationship between our two countries going forward. Greenland and Denmark are standing closely together.”

A White House official said Washington was holding talks with Greenland and Denmark to address national security concerns, and was optimistic discussions were on a good trajectory.

Lynge’s journey towards becoming a pro-independence firebrand began in the 1950s, when he was sent by his parents to study in Denmark. A seminal moment, he recalled, came in 1968 when a U.S. bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in northern Greenland.

Copenhagen denied authorizing such overflights of the island, which would violate Denmark’s nuclear-free policy. Lynge didn’t believe the government at the time and denounced what he told Reuters was Danish “hypocrisy”.

A Danish government-commissioned report later found that Copenhagen had in fact signalled approval of the overflights to Washington, whose Cold War mission was to constantly maintain a nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union.

After returning to Greenland from his studies in 1976, Lynge co-founded Inuit Ataqatigiit, which dominated the island’s politics for decades along with fellow pro-independence party Siumut.

Both parties called for ambitious moves towards independence from Denmark while allowing time for Greenland to build itself up economically.

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