Greenland should consider rejoining the European Union for “protection” in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to acquire the Arctic island, Danish MEP Morten Løkkegaard said Wednesday. While Løkkegaard said Greenland’s future was ultimately for Greenlanders to decide, he argued it was time for “some kind of new thinking.”
A senior European Union military official has suggested that deploying troops to Greenland could curb Donald Trump’s ambitions regarding the territory. Robert Brieger, chairman of the EU Military Committee,
EU politicians have threatened to deploy European troops to Greenland and refused to negotiate with Trump over his plans to buy the island. Denmark has announced a multi-billion dollar boost to
The US President has said the Arctic island is vital to US security and has tried to pressure Denmark to cede the territory to Washington.
The Danish PM's tour of three capitals betrayed the nervousness felt in Denmark over Trump's repeated comments.
The European Union is "not negotiating" on Greenland, EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday, amid claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that the United States needs to control Greenland for security purposes.
The EU and Nato have taken a vow of silence over Greenland after Denmark requested its key allies refrain from reacting to Donald Trump’s threats to seize the Arctic island.
The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag published on Saturday,
The European Union’s top general has said the bloc should deploy troops to Greenland after Donald Trump suggested he could seize the territory...
While Donald Trump's interest in Greenland provoked reactions from EU leaders, residents seem less worried, according to interviews conducted on the ground by Euronews. #RadioSchuman
Trump’s increasingly trenchant remarks about Greenland — he has called the U.S. acquiring the island an “absolute necessity” and refused to rule out using military force or economic coercion to do so — have sparked crisis talks in Copenhagen and other European capitals.