{"id":31834,"date":"2026-08-07T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/31834\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:33:07","slug":"belgium-to-send-troops-to-greenland-as-part-of-nato-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/31834\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium to send troops to Greenland as part of NATO mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium will send around 30 military personnel to Greenland in September for a two-week NATO training mission, Defence Minister Theo Francken (N-VA) announced during a visit to Iceland on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.az\" class=\"hyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">APA<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment will take place from 4 to 18 September as part of Arctic Sentry, a NATO mission in the Arctic region, Francken&#8217;s office confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian contingent will include troops from Leopoldsburg as well as members of the Special Forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the exercise, they will take part in drills under a new component of the Arctic Sentry mission known as Arctic Shield, according to the minister&#8217;s spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Arctic Sentry is a NATO military mission launched in February this year amid rising tensions between the United States and Greenland, after US President Donald Trump&#8217;s renewed interest in the island. The US is also expected to participate in the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Francken is also visiting Icelandic Air Policing on Friday, a NATO operation that patrols Iceland&#8217;s airspace because the country does not have an air force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium will send around 30 military personnel to Greenland in September for a two-week NATO training mission, Defence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1451,1488,1507,1447,1448,1449,1453,1472,7,595,1463,1495,1499,1493,1478,1462,1496,1459,1479,1477,1465,1500,1468,1467,1494,1475,1489,1509,1512,1510,1506,1469,1504,865,1460,1466,1454,1490,1486,1492,1511,1455,1480,1481,1471,1452,1482,1461,1513,1458,1476,1487,1508,1474,1498,1473,1502,1501,1514,1485,1483,1503,1470,1491,1457,1505,1464,1497,1456,1484,1450],"class_list":["post-31834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-all-news","tag-amsterdam-news","tag-ankara-news","tag-apa-az","tag-apa-news","tag-apa-az-news","tag-apaaz-news","tag-austria-news","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-news","tag-brexit-news","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-bundestag-news","tag-catalonia-news","tag-council-of-europe-news","tag-eastern-european-countries-news","tag-elysee-palace","tag-european-countries-news","tag-european-court-of-human-rights-echr-news","tag-european-union-news","tag-france-news","tag-france-senate","tag-frg-news","tag-germany-news","tag-great-britain-queen","tag-greece-news","tag-hague-court","tag-iaea-news","tag-illegal-migrants","tag-international-atomic-energy-agency","tag-istanbul-news","tag-italy-news","tag-karabakh","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-news-from-european-countries","tag-latest-news-from-france","tag-lent-az-news","tag-lisbon-news","tag-london-news","tag-madrid-news","tag-migration-news","tag-most-read-news","tag-nato-news","tag-nato-secretary-general","tag-netherlands-news","tag-news-baku","tag-news-from-brussels","tag-news-from-western-european-countries","tag-news-of-illegal-migration-to-europe","tag-news-today","tag-osce-news","tag-paris-news","tag-pkk-news","tag-poland-news","tag-pope","tag-portugal-news","tag-pro-armenian-france","tag-pro-armenian-senators","tag-repatriation-news-from-european-countries","tag-rome-news","tag-scandinavian-countries","tag-so-called-armenian-genocide","tag-spain-news","tag-strasbourg-news","tag-todays-news","tag-turkey-news","tag-uk-news","tag-vatican","tag-vesti-az-news","tag-vienna-news","tag-xeber-az"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}