[🇺🇸] Greenland Annexation.

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Date of Event: Jan 6, 2026

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Greenland says 'no more fantasies about annexation' after Trump remarks
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Published: 05 Jan 2026, 21: 11

An aerial view shows a fjord in western Greenland, 16 September 2025.

Greenland’s leader declared “enough is enough,” and Denmark’s allies in Europe affirmed that the Arctic island’s future must be determined by its people, rebuffing renewed remarks by US President Donald Trump about acquiring the vast territory.

A US military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and Trump’s intention to oversee governance of the oil-rich Latin American country, have rekindled concerns in Denmark that Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, might face a similar scenario.

“Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark must determine the future of Greenland and nobody else,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters. Starmer has sought to stay on good terms with Trump and adopted a less publicly critical approach than most other European leaders.


Trump has repeatedly said he wants to take over Greenland, an ambition first voiced in 2019 during his first presidency. On Sunday, he told The Atlantic magazine in an interview: “We do need Greenland, absolutely. We need it for defence.”

Trump renews Greenland ambition

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One early on Monday, Trump said he would revisit the topic in a few weeks.

“Threats, pressure, and talk of annexation have no place between friends,” Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Facebook late on Sunday. “Enough is enough. (...) No more fantasies about annexation.”

On 21 December, Trump appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland. Landry has publicly expressed support for incorporating Greenland into the United States.

Greenland’s strategic location between Europe and North America makes it a critical site for the U.S. ballistic missile defence system. The island’s significant mineral resources also align with Washington’s ambition to reduce dependence on Chinese exports.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Monday that Greenland belongs to Denmark and suggested NATO could discuss strengthening its protection if necessary.

France also expressed solidarity, saying Greenland belonged to the people of Greenland, while a European Commission spokesperson said that the EU will continue to uphold the principle of national sovereignty.

Support for Denmark and Greenland also came swiftly from all Nordic and Baltic leaders. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Sunday that U.S. comments about needing to take over Greenland made “absolutely no sense”.​

 

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Trump weighs military option to acquire Greenland

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that "acquiring Greenland is a national security priority" for Trump to deter US adversaries like Russia and China.

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Trump weighs military option to acquire Greenland
AFP Washington, United States
Published: 07 Jan 2026, 09: 39

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US President Donald Trump is discussing options including military action to take control of Greenland, the White House said Tuesday, upping tensions that Denmark warns could destroy the NATO alliance.

Trump has stepped up his designs on the mineral-rich, self-governing Danish territory in the arctic since the US military operation to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro last weekend.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that "acquiring Greenland is a national security priority" for Trump to deter US adversaries like Russia and China.

"The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the US military is always an option at the commander in chief's disposal," she said in a statement to AFP.


The Wall Street Journal reported US secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers that Trump's preferred option is to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding that the threats did not signal an imminent invasion.

Denmark has warned that any move to take Greenland by force would mean that "everything would stop" including NATO and 80 years of close transatlantic security links.

Any US military action against Greenland would effectively collapse NATO, since the alliance's Article Five pledges that member states will defend any of their number that come under attack.

Greenland and Denmark said earlier that they had asked to meet Rubio quickly as tensions rose over the issue.

"It has so far not been possible," Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt wrote on social media, adding that they had been pushing for a meeting throughout 2025.

Denmark's Foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said meeting Rubio should "clear up certain misunderstandings."

Greenland prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen earlier insisted that the island was not for sale, and that only its 57,000 people should decide its future.

'Not acceptable'

Allies have rallied around Denmark and Greenland -- while trying not to antagonise Trump at the same time.

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain joined Denmark in a statement on Tuesday saying that they would defend the "universal principles" of "sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders."

French president Emmanuel Macron and British prime minister Keir Starmer both sought to play down the row as they attended Ukraine peace talks in Paris alongside Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

"I cannot imagine a scenario in which the United States of America would be placed in a position to violate Danish sovereignty," Macron said.

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, whose country Trump earlier this year said should become the 51st state, also weighed in.

"The future of Greenland and Denmark are decided solely by the people of Denmark and Greenland," Carney told reporters in Paris.

The United States already has a military base in Greenland, the Pituffik space base, with around 150 personnel stationed there.

Greenland residents have also rejected Trump's threats.

"This is not something we appreciate," Christian Keldsen, director of the Greenland Business Assocation, told AFP in the capital Nuuk. "It is not acceptable in the civilised world."

Trump's deputy chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN on Monday that "nobody's going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland!"

Copenhagen has however invested heavily in security, allocating some 90 billion kroner ($14 billion) in the last year.

Trump has been floating the idea of annexing Greenland since his first term.

"It's like a broken record," Marc Jacobsen, a specialist in security, politics and diplomacy in the Arctic at the Royal Danish Defence College, told AFP.​

 

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European troops in Greenland have no impact on Trump's pursuit: White House

The deployment of European troops in Greenland has no impact on US President Donald Trump's plans to take control of the Arctic island from Denmark, the White House said Thursday

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European troops in Greenland have no impact on Trump's pursuit: White House

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The deployment of European troops in Greenland has no impact on US President Donald Trump's plans to take control of the Arctic island from Denmark, the White House said Thursday.


"I don't think troops in Europe impact the president's decision-making process, nor does it impact his goal of the acquisition of Greenland at all," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a briefing when asked about the deployment.​

 

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US lawmakers arrive in Copenhagen to counter Trump's Greenland threats

A bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers will meet with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Friday to reassure them of congressional support despite President Donald Trump's threats to seize the Arctic island. Trump has said Greenland is vital to US security because of its strategic location an

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US lawmakers arrive in Copenhagen to counter Trump's Greenland threats

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Published :
Jan 16, 2026 17:29
Updated :
Jan 16, 2026 17:29

A drone view shows a general view of Nuuk, Greenland, Jan 15, 2026 Photo : REUTERS


A bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers will meet with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Friday to reassure them of congressional support despite President Donald Trump's threats to seize the Arctic island.

Trump has said Greenland is vital to US security because of its strategic location and large supply of minerals and has not ruled out the use of force to take it. European nations this week sent small numbers of military personnel to the island at Denmark's request.

The 11-member US delegation, led by Democratic Senator Chris Coons, is scheduled to meet with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart Jens-Frederik Nielsen, according to Frederiksen's office.

"At a time of increasing international instability, we need to draw closer to our allies, not drive them away," Coons said in a press release earlier this week, adding the delegation would send "a clear message that Congress is committed to NATO."

The delegation includes Republican Senators Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski, though it is largely composed of Democratic lawmakers.

COPENHAGEN VISIT FOLLOWS WHITE HOUSE MEETING

The congressional visit follows a high-stakes meeting at the White House on Wednesday, where Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

Danish officials said after that meeting they had not managed to change the US administration's position on acquiring Greenland.

Rasmussen and Motzfeldt have also been meeting with USlawmakers in Washington this week to rally congressional support, as Denmark and Greenland seek to resolve the unprecedented diplomatic crisis with a NATO ally.

"(We are) ready for cooperation on security in the Arctic but it has to happen with respect for our territorial integrity, international law and the UN Charter," Rasmussen said in a post on Instagram late on Thursday.

Trump first floated the idea of acquiring Greenland in 2019 during his first term, but faces opposition in Washington, including from within his own party.

BIPARTISAN OPPOSITION TO GREENLAND SEIZURE

Lawmakers from both Trump's Republican party and opposition Democrats have said they would back legislation to rein in Trump's ability to seize Greenland, amid an ongoing fight over war powers, which the Constitution grants to Congress.

A House bill in support of annexing Greenland has also been introduced.

Just 17% of Americans approve of President Donald Trump's efforts to acquire Greenland, and large majorities of Democrats and Republicans oppose using military force to annex the island, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Trump has called the poll "fake."​

 

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Trump vows tariffs on eight European nations over Greenland

REUTERS

Published :
Jan 18, 2026 01:08
Updated :
Jan 18, 2026 01:08

A seagull flies past the Danish military Offshore Patrol Vessel P570 HDMS Knud Rasmussen in Nuuk, Greenland, Jan 16, 2026. Photo : REUTERS/Marko Djurica

President Donald Trump on Saturday vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a row over the future of Denmark's vast Arctic island.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said additional 10 per cent import tariffs would take effect on February 1 on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Great Britain — all already subject to tariffs imposed by Trump.

Those tariffs would increase to 25 per cent on June 1 and would continue until a deal was reached for the U.S. to purchase Greenland, Trump wrote.

TRUMP WANTS GREENLAND FOR SECURITY, MINERALS

The president has repeatedly said Greenland is vital to US security because of its strategic location and large mineral deposits, and has not ruled out using force to take it. European nations this week sent military personnel to the island at Denmark's request.

"These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable," Trump wrote.

"The United States of America is immediately open to negotiation with Denmark and/or any of these Countries that have put so much at risk, despite all that we have done for them, including maximum protection, over so many decades," he said.

Protesters in Denmark and Greenland demonstrated on Saturday against Trump's demands and called for the territory to be left to determine its own future.

The countries named by Trump on Saturday have backed Denmark, warning that the US military seizure of a territory in NATO could collapse the military alliance that Washington leads. After the US president's social media post, Norway's top diplomat reiterated support for Denmark and said tariffs should not be part of Greenland discussions.

"There is broad agreement within NATO on the need to strengthen security in the Arctic, including in Greenland," Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement. "We do not think the question of tariffs belongs in this context."

Trump had floated the idea of tariffs over Greenland on Friday, without citing a legal basis for doing so.

TRADE DEALS UNDER THREAT?

Saturday's threat could derail tentative deals Trump struck last year with the European Union and Great Britain. The deals included baseline levies of 15 per cent on imports from Europe and 10 per cent on most British goods.

Tariffs have become the US president's weapon of choice in seeking to compel American adversaries and allies alike to meet his strategic and economic demands.

Trump said this week he would put 25 per cent tariffs on any country trading with Iran as that country suppressed anti-government protests, though there has been no official documentation from the White House of the policy on its website, nor information about the legal authority Trump would use.

The US Supreme Court has heard arguments on the legality of Trump's sweeping tariffs, and any decision by the top US judicial body would have major implications on the global economy and US presidential powers.

Citing threats from Russia and China, Trump has repeatedly insisted he will settle for nothing less than ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. Leaders of both Denmark and Greenland have insisted the island is not for sale and does not want to be part of the United States.

Danish and other European officials have pointed out that as Greenland is part of NATO, it is already covered by the alliance's Article 5 collective security pact.

The US already has a military base, Pituffik Space Base, in Greenland, with around 200 troops, and can deploy as many more forces as it wants under a 1951 agreement.

That has led many European officials to conclude that Trump is motivated more by a desire to expand US territory than security concerns.​

 

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Trump threatens Europe with tariffs over Greenland as protesters rally

If realized, Trump’s threats against Washington’s NATO partners would create unprecedented tension within the alliance.

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Trump threatens Europe with tariffs over Greenland as protesters rally
AFP Palm Beach/Nuuk, United States
Published: 18 Jan 2026, 09: 19

US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs on aluminum imports in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on 10 February Reuters

US President Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his quest to acquire Greenland, threatening multiple European nations with tariffs of up to 25 per cent until he achieves his goal of controlling the Danish territory.

Trump’s threats came as thousands of people protested in the capital of Greenland against his wish to acquire the mineral-rich island at the gateway to the Arctic.

Thousands more protested in Copenhagen and other Danish cities.

The US president aimed his ire at Denmark, a fellow NATO member, as well as several other European countries that have deployed troops in recent days to the vast autonomous territory with a population of 57,000.

If realised, Trump’s threats against Washington’s NATO partners would create unprecedented tension within the alliance.

From 1 February, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would be subject to a 10-per cent tariff on all goods sent to the United States, Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

“On June 1st, 2026, the Tariff will be increased to 25%. This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland,” he wrote.

“These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable,” Trump said.

“Therefore, it is imperative that, in order to protect Global Peace and Security, strong measures be taken so that this potentially perilous situation end quickly, and without question.”

Trump added that he was “immediately open to negotiation with Denmark and/or any of these Countries.”

Denmark called Trump’s announcement a “surprise,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it was “completely wrong,” and French President Emmanuel Macron added: “Tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place in this context.”

“We won’t let ourselves be intimidated,” Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told AFP, adding that the governments involved were working on a joint response.

In a statement, European Union leaders said the bloc “stands in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland.”

An extraordinary meeting of EU ambassadors has been called in Brussels for Sunday afternoon.

Greenlandic minister Naaja Nathanielsen on Saturday praised the reaction of European countries, saying she was “thankful and hopeful for diplomacy and allieship (sic) to prevail.”

‘Make America Go Away’

In Nuuk, thousands of people, including the territory’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, waved Greenlandic flags, chanted slogans and sang traditional Inuit songs under light rain.

Many wore caps with the words “Make America Go Away”—a riff on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

“We don’t want Trump invading Greenland, that is the message,” 44-year-old nurse Paarniq Larsen Strum said at the Nuuk rally, calling the situation “nerve-wracking.”

“We demand respect for our country’s right to self-determination and for us as a people,” added protest organizer Avijaja Rosing-Olsen.

In Copenhagen, charity worker Kirsten Hjoernholm, 52, said it was important to show unity with Greenlanders.

“You cannot be bullied by an ally. It’s about international law,” she said.

Around her, demonstrators waved the flags of Denmark and Greenland while chanting “Kalaallit Nunaat!”—the vast Arctic island’s name in Greenlandic.

Some also held placards saying “USA already has too much ICE,” referring to Trump’s deployment of federal immigration officers in US cities, while others chanted “Greenland is not for sale.”

US ‘security’ claims

Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States needs Greenland for US “national security,” while alleging without evidence that China and Russia are trying to control it.

Those two countries have increased their security presence in the Arctic, but have not made any claims over its sovereignty.

France said the European military exercise in Greenland was designed to show the world that it will defend the territory.

Denmark said the US had been invited to join the drill.

It was not immediately clear what authority the US president would invoke to impose the threatened tariffs of up to 25 per cent.

Since returning to the presidency, Trump has unleashed sweeping tariffs on goods from virtually all trading partners, to address what Washington says are unfair trade practices and as a tool to press governments.

Washington and the European Union struck a deal last summer to lower US tariffs on key European goods, with the deal currently being implemented.

Also on Saturday, US lawmakers were wrapping up a visit to Copenhagen for talks with Greenlandic and Danish politicians.

The group, led by Democratic Senator Chris Coons, told reporters that Trump’s stance was not backed by the majority of Americans.

It is also roundly rejected by Greenlanders, 85 per cent of whom—according to the latest poll published in January 2025 -- oppose the territory joining the United States. Only six per cent were in favour.​

 

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Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize

US President Donald Trump has said he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace after he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, as he again repeated his demand for control of Greenland. In a message to Norway’s prime minister, Trump blamed the country for not giving him the prize, repor

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Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize

Published :
Jan 19, 2026 19:54
Updated :
Jan 19, 2026 19:54

US President Donald Trump has said he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace after he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, as he again repeated his demand for control of Greenland.

In a message to Norway’s prime minister, Trump blamed the country for not giving him the prize, reports BBC.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper’ for the US”, Trump said in the message obtained by US media.

“The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” he added.

CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, confirmed the message and its contents.

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said he had received the text message on Sunday in response to a text he and Finland’s president Alexander Stubb had sent to Trump.

Støre said they had conveyed opposition to proposed tariff increases over the Greenland dispute, and pointed to the need to de-escalate, proposing a three-way phone call the same day.

Støre noted an independent committee, not the government of Norway, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump has made no secret of his desire to be awarded the annual prize.

He has increasingly insisted that the US needs to take over Greenland for national security reasons. The sparsely-populated but resource-rich Arctic island is well placed for early warning systems in the event of missile attacks and for monitoring vessels in the region.

Trump has repeated that he wants the US to buy Greenland and has not ruled out using military force against a member of the Nato security alliance to take it.

Over the weekend, he said he would impose a 10% tariff on goods from eight Nato allies starting in February if they oppose his proposed takeover, and threatened to raise it to 25% by June.

In his message to Støre, Trump said Denmark cannot protect Greenland from Russia or China, and questioned “why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also”.

“I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States,” he concluded.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said on Monday that any decision about the future status of Greenland “belongs to the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark alone”, and called the use of tariffs against allies “wrong”.

Danish defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen and Greenlandic foreign affairs minister Vivian Motzfeldt are due to meet on Monday with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Last week, the Danish and Greenlandic governments, together with Nato allies, decided to increase military presence and exercise activity in the Arctic and the North Atlantic.

Several European states sent small numbers of military personnel to Greenland in a so-called reconnaissance mission.

As Trump’s recent message said, he has claimed to have ended eight wars since his second term as president began last year.

The peace prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

Later, when US forces seized and removed Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro from Caracas, accusing him of drug trafficking and other crimes, Trump did not endorse Machado as the country’s next leader and instead backed Maduro’s vice-president as the interim head of government.

Machado, who has praised Trump, met him at the White House last week and gave her medal to him. The Nobel Foundation had said the award could not “even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed”.​

 

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Trump says world ‘not secure’ until US has Greenland

Donald Trump no longer needs to think ‘purely of peace’ after being snubbed for a Nobel, the US president said in comments published Monday, adding the world will not be safe until Washington controls Greenland.

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Trump says world ‘not secure’ until US has Greenland
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Donald Trump no longer needs to think ‘purely of peace’ after being snubbed for a Nobel, the US president said in comments published Monday, adding the world will not be safe until Washington controls Greenland.

Trump has put the transatlantic alliance to the test with threats to take over Greenland ‘one way or the other’, with European countries closing ranks against Washington’s designs on the vast Danish territory.

German and French leaders denounced as ‘blackmail’ weekend threats by Trump to wield new tariffs against countries which oppose his plans for the Arctic island, and said Monday that Europe was preparing trade countermeasures.

The European Union said it was holding an emergency summit on Thursday to weigh its response, and that while its priority is to ‘engage not escalate’ it is ready to act if needed.

Greenland, for its part, said the tariffs threat does not change its desire to assert its own sovereignty.

‘We will not be pressured,’ Greenlandic prime minister Jens-

Frederik Nielsen said in a Facebook post, adding that the autonomous territory ‘is a democratic society with the right to make its own decisions’.

But Trump had earlier doubled down, announcing in a message to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Store that the world ‘is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland’.

The message — published Monday and whose authenticity was confirmed to AFP by Store’s office — also saw Trump brush aside peace as a primary goal.

‘I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,’ he said, citing his failure to win the last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, despite openly coveting it.

He said although peace would still be ‘predominant,’ he could ‘now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.’

Store said the statement had been received in response to a message from him and Finnish president Alexander Stubb, where they had ‘conveyed our opposition’ to Trump’s tariff threats.

Store also underlined that the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded by the Norwegian government.

‘I have clearly explained, including to president Trump what is well known — the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee,’ he said in a written statement.

Trump has repeatedly said his country needs vast, mineral-rich Greenland for ‘national security’, despite the United States already having a base on the island and security agreements with fellow NATO ally Denmark.

‘Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China,’ Trump said in his message to the Norwegian premier, doubling down on that sentiment in a post to Truth Social on Monday.

Denmark’s defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen said Monday steps had already been taken along with NATO allies to ‘increase military presence and training activity in the Arctic and the North Atlantic’.

Lund Poulsen added that he and Greenlandic foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt would be meeting with NATO chief Mark Rutte later on Monday.

This weekend, Trump said that from February 1, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would be subject to a 10-per cent tariff on all goods sent to the United States — a duty which could go higher.

Germany’s vice chancellor Lars Klingbeil slammed the move as blackmail, and said Monday that Europe was preparing countermeasures.

French finance minister Roland Lescure, speaking at a press conference alongside Kingbeil, agreed.

‘Blackmail between allies of 250 years, blackmail between friends, is obviously unacceptable,’ Lecurse said.

Klingbeil said Europe’s response could have three main strands.

First, the current tariff deal with the United States would be put on hold, he said.

Second, European tariffs on imports from the United States, currently suspended until early February, could come into force.

And thirdly the EU should consider using its toolbox of instruments against ‘economic blackmail’, he added.

Europe’s stock markets fell as the week’s trading began Monday, with British prime minister Keir Starmer warning that a ‘trade war is in no one’s interest’.

Greenland — whose tiny population of 57,000 has voiced disquiet at Trump’s threats — continued to make its preferences clear Monday.

Greenland’s dogsled federation said that the new US special envoy to the Arctic island had been disinvited to its annual race.

Jeff Landry had been invited to attend the race by a private Greenlandic tour operator, an invite the KNQK federation has previously called ‘totally inappropriate’.​