Government calls for NATO mission in Greenland
The government has urged NATO to establish a mission in Greenland. Following alliance talks in Brussels, Monday, Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said he’d laid out the proposal to Secretary General Mark Rutte…
MorePetulant Trump links Greenland takeover to failed Nobel Prize dream
Donald Trump has linked his ambition to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In a letter to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, Sunday, the President said he…
MoreDemocrats vow to block Trump’s tariffs as new poll shows U.S. voters oppose military force in Greenland
The US Democratic Party has vowed to block the punitive tariffs Donald Trump is aiming to impose on Denmark and its allies who last week dispatched troops to a military exercise in Greenland….
MoreConservative MP in rapist controversy
Conservative MP Rasmus Jarloc has come under fire in the U.S. for claiming that one of Donald Trump’s closest advisors has the ‘mentality of a rapist’. When asked to respond in an interview…
MoreMore Danish troops in Greenland
58 Danish combat troops arrived at Kangerlussuaq Air Firce Base in Greenland last night, part of a larger contingent promised by Denmark’s top military commander in the Arctic, Maj. Gen. Søren Andersen, last…
MoreUS military plane heading for Greenland
A military aircraft from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was en route to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland last night as part of a long-planned military exercise coordinated with Denmark. NORAD…
MorePM: We won’t be blackmailed
Denmark and seven European allies issued a joint statement, Sunday, in response to Donald Trump’s threat to impose a wave of increasing tariffs on those countries opposing his plans to annex Greenland. In…
MoreNew Trump tantrum
Donald Trump has fired off yet another warning to Denmark. In a message on his own Truth Social site at 05.10 Danish time this morning (23.10 in Washington) the President said: “NATO has…
MoreTrump’s tariff threat ‘unacceptable’
Donald Trump’s tariff threat against Denmark and its allies is both ‘unacceptable’ and ‘extreme’, the government said, Sunday. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said the threat came as a surprise, particularly after his…
MoreForeign Minister on trip to firm up NATO support
Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has embarked on a 5-day trip to Denmark’s NATO allies in the north to shore up the alliance’s Arctic security strategy following President Donald Trump’s threat to punish…
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