A U.S. military seizure of Greenland from a longtime ally, Denmark, would send shock waves through the NATO alliance and deepen the divide between Trump and European leaders.
“We want to take action, but we want to do so together with our European partners,” he said on France Inter radio.
A German government source said separately that Germany was “closely working together with other European countries and Denmark on the next steps regarding Greenland”.
A senior European official said Denmark must lead the effort to coordinate a response, but “the Danes have yet to communicate to their European allies what kind of concrete support they wish to receive,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Johannes Koskinen, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Finland’s parliament, called for the issue to be raised at NATO.
NATO allies should “address whether something needs to be done and whether the United States should be brought into line in the sense that it cannot disregard jointly agreed plans in order to pursue its own power ambitions,” he said.
The next North Atlantic Council meeting is scheduled for Thursday.
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One thing that becomes clear is that the entire European Union supports Denmark, and Denmark is not alone. It’s very good to see why the European Union exists.
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What would an US invasion even look like? There is the Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk that is tasked with Maritime Pollution Prevention, fishery inspection, Search & Rescue, hydrographical surveys and support to governmental science missions, and the civil society. Outside of that they’re represented in Thule, Kangerlussuaq, as well as several smaller stations mainly, along the east coast of Greenland; Station North, Daneborg, Mestersvig and Groennedal.
If you want to occupy any of those you probably would basically have to send people to sit and stare at the personnel there and then have more people trying to do those people’s job maintaining the stations for shelter and warmth.
You’d have to build bases for your own people in an arctic wasteland to accommodate them which you can already do if you’d ask permission.
So basically an enormous waste of money just to not have to ask permission first with an almost certain chance of getting approved. The US has already been there and done that.
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PARIS/BERLIN, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Allies including France and Germany are working closely on a plan on how to respond should the United States act on its [threat to take over Greenland](https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-advisers-discussing-options-acquiring-greenland-us-military-is-always-an-2026-01-06/), as Europe seeks to address U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions in the region.
A U.S. military seizure of Greenland from a longtime ally, Denmark, would send shock waves through the NATO alliance and deepen the divide between Trump and European leaders.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the [subject would be raised](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-working-with-allies-plan-should-us-make-move-greenland-2026-01-07/) at a meeting with the foreign ministers of Germany and Poland later in the day.
“We want to take action, but we want to do so together with our European partners,” he said on France Inter radio.
A German government source said separately that Germany was “closely working together with other European countries and Denmark on the next steps regarding Greenland”.
A senior European official said Denmark must lead the effort to coordinate a response, but “the Danes have yet to communicate to their European allies what kind of concrete support they wish to receive,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Leaders from major European powers and Canada [have rallied](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/only-greenland-denmark-can-decide-their-future-european-leaders-say-joint-2026-01-06/) behind Greenland this week, saying the Arctic island belongs to its people, following a renewed threat by Trump to take over the territory.
Johannes Koskinen, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Finland’s parliament, called for the issue to be raised at NATO.
NATO allies should “address whether something needs to be done and whether the United States should be brought into line in the sense that it cannot disregard jointly agreed plans in order to pursue its own power ambitions,” he said.
The next North Atlantic Council meeting is scheduled for Thursday.
One thing that becomes clear is that the entire European Union supports Denmark, and Denmark is not alone. It’s very good to see why the European Union exists.
What would an US invasion even look like? There is the Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk that is tasked with Maritime Pollution Prevention, fishery inspection, Search & Rescue, hydrographical surveys and support to governmental science missions, and the civil society. Outside of that they’re represented in Thule, Kangerlussuaq, as well as several smaller stations mainly, along the east coast of Greenland; Station North, Daneborg, Mestersvig and Groennedal.
If you want to occupy any of those you probably would basically have to send people to sit and stare at the personnel there and then have more people trying to do those people’s job maintaining the stations for shelter and warmth.
You’d have to build bases for your own people in an arctic wasteland to accommodate them which you can already do if you’d ask permission.
So basically an enormous waste of money just to not have to ask permission first with an almost certain chance of getting approved. The US has already been there and done that.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OndXawgRAeo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OndXawgRAeo)
Nok engelsksprogede Grønland posts for i dag, tak.
Europe really about to blow up NATO to cling to a colonial relic of one of its most irrelevant members.
Den, der kommer først.
De er allerede i gang med at flytte fly til UK.