{"id":122246,"date":"2026-07-04T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/122246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:41:12","slug":"greenland-premier-says-island-not-for-sale-despite-continued-us-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/122246\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland premier says island not for sale despite continued US pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Friday that the United States is still pressing to gain control of the Arctic island, but insisted Greenland &#8220;will never be for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">Speaking at a public event in France, Nielsen said the United States has not given up its ambition to acquire Greenland and has subjected the self-governing Danish territory to what he called &#8220;severe and unacceptable&#8221; pressure for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">&#8220;We have seen no end to it, even today,&#8221; Nielsen said. &#8220;We will never give up on our values, and we will never be for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">In a Facebook post after the event, Nielsen said Greenland could not take international support for granted and needs to strengthen ties with allies when &#8220;someone casts doubt on our right to decide our own future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">Noting that direct dialogue with the United States is the right way to address the issue, Nielsen said Greenland is ready to work more closely with like-minded European countries on critical minerals, energy and hydropower.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8487776_1783150472003_a.jpg.webp\" class=\"image-lightbox\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-mainpost\" data-caption=\"Greenland premier says island not for sale despite continued US pressure\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8487776_1783150472003_a.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Greenland premier says island not for sale despite continued US pressure\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"14\">Greenland premier says island not for sale despite continued US pressure<\/p>\n<p>      <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">The yield on the latest issue of 10-year Japanese government bond (JGB), the benchmark long-term interest rate in the country, has reached a new high in nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">The yield on 30-year JGB climbed to 2.81 percent, marking the highest level since October 1996.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"16\">Local media held that the yields were driven up by the factors of the situation in the Middle East and the fiscal policies of the Japanese government.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8487778_1783151506308_a.jpg.webp\" class=\"image-lightbox\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-nextpost\" data-caption=\"Japan's 10-year gov't bond yield at 30-year high\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8487778_1783151506308_a.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Japan's 10-year gov't bond yield at 30-year high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption font-size-scaler-control\" data-font=\"14\">Japan&#8217;s 10-year gov&#8217;t bond yield at 30-year high<\/p>\n<p>      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenland&#8217;s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Friday that the United States is still pressing to gain control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[3546,174,57],"class_list":["post-122246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-cctvplus-news","tag-china","tag-greenland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116861054980828269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}