La Danimarca avverte la Casa Bianca di Trump sullo spionaggio della Groenlandia

I’m danish and the last couple of day, the news has been about how to handle the situation. All the time I’m sitting there yelling VISAS. I mean… I’ve to get a visa getting into the US. Why not visas for Americans?

Don’t start to fortify Greenland and you will see…

Comrade krasnov don’t give a shit,he is gonna pursue this and plant us troops on greenland without greenland’s or denmarks consent.

The EU’s nuclear deterrent is tiny and overly centralised, it was only a matter of time until a piece gets taken while France considers it unworthy of full defence posture.

Years of pacifism and anti-nuclear activism are starting to deliver their first dividends.

Every time Denmark makes statements like this there should be an EU official in the background or something. The US don’t give a shit about Denmark, the benefit on a union is adding strength to such statements, to *make* them have to care, rather than ask

**Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said “you cannot spy against an ally” after a news report that the U.S. is gathering more intelligence on Greenland, the semi-autonomous Danish territory that U.S. President** [**Donald Trump**](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/donald-trump) **seeks control of.**

Frederiksen made the comment to the Associated Press a day after Denmark—a [NATO](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/nato) ally of the U.S.—had summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen to explain the report to its foreign minister.

# Why It Matters

Trump wants Greenland, a large Arctic island to the northeast of Canada, because of its significance to U.S. national security and its vast, untapped natural resources.

He has said the U.S. will take control of Greenland eventually and has not ruled out military intervention, alarming American allies, particularly Denmark. The U.S. has a military base on the island already.

# What to Know

The heads of American intelligence agencies were directed to gather more information about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes to the U.S. extracting resources there, *The Wall Street Journal* reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the effort.

This instruction came from high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence [Tulsi Gabbard](https://www.newsweek.com/topic/tulsi-gabbard), the *Journal* reported, and included an order to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island.

Jennifer Hall Godfrey, acting head of the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, met with high-ranking Danish diplomat Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen at the Danish Foreign Ministry over the *Journal* article published on Tuesday.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told broadcaster DR outside a meeting Wednesday with colleagues in Poland that Denmark would summon the U.S. diplomat to seek a “rebuttal” or other explanation following the report.

Rasmussen, who has previously scolded the Trump administration over its criticism of NATO ally Denmark and Greenland, said the information in the report was “very worrying” and “we don’t spy between friends.”

“We are looking at this with quite a lot of seriousness,” he added.