Greenland, Donald Trump and FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
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Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen is flying to Nuuk from Brussels, where she attended a summit of European Union leaders and met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. In the Greenlandic capital she will hold talks with the territory’s premier, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, her office said in a post on X.
The president's push to gain control of Greenland, a Danish territory, has created anxiety about the future of the alliance throughout Europe.
President Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland was filled with inaccurate claims – notably including false and misleading statements about NATO and Greenland, the self-governing Danish territory he is pushing for the US to acquire.
General Mark Rutte may have been instrumental in persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to scrap his threat of tariffs as he presses for control over Greenland.
By Soren Jeppesen and Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Friday she had agreed with NATO chief Mark Rutte that the alliance needs to boost security in the Arctic following weeks of turmoil over U.
The president rules out using force to take control of Greenland and calls off promised tariffs on European nations.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has repeatedly said that Greenland belongs to Greenlanders and that no decision on the island's future can be made without their agreement. But Broberg said that the framing of Trump's bid to acquire Greenland as an attack on Denmark has sown confusion.
The US president earlier said Nato would be in "the ash heap of history" without him, after doubling down on his Greenland demands.