{"id":13298,"date":"2026-02-14T22:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13298\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:19:10","slug":"trumps-desire-to-own-greenland-persists-danish-pm-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13298\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘desire’ to own Greenland persists: Danish PM | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force.<\/p>\n

Asked at a security conference in Munich if Trump still wanted to own the Arctic island, Frederiksen said:\u00a0“Unfortunately, I think the desire is the same.”<\/p>\n

Trump’s designs on Greenland have caused tension to soar between the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n

Last month, he backed down from his threats to seize the island, an autonomous territory of ally Denmark, after striking what he called a “framework” deal with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n

But relations have remained strained.<\/p>\n

“Everybody asks us, do we think it’s over? I mean, no, we don’t think it’s over,” Frederiksen said, participating in a panel discussion on Arctic security.<\/p>\n

Trump insists mineral-rich Greenland is vital for US and NATO security against Russia and China as a melting Arctic opens up and the superpowers jostle for strategic advantage.<\/p>\n

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Frederiksen and her Greenlandic counterpart, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said the pressure on the island’s people was “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n

But Nielsen said “some steps” had been taken “in the right direction”.<\/p>\n

A US-Denmark-Greenland working group has been established to discuss Washington’s security concerns in the Arctic, but details have not been made public.<\/p>\n

“We now have a working group, it’s good. We will try to see if we can find a solution… But of course, there are red lines that will not be crossed. And we will stick to our strategy,” Frederiksen said.<\/p>\n

The remarks came after Frederiksen and Nielsen had a 15-minute meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday on the sidelines of the security conference, which Frederiksen afterwards described as “constructive”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[688,649,1157,1594,1584,1588,1589,1586,1585,57,1583,4881,3396,1158],"class_list":{"0":"post-13298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greenland","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-arctic","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-federal-government-of-the-united-states","12":"tag-foreign-policy","13":"tag-foreign-relations","14":"tag-foreign-relations-of-the-united-states","15":"tag-global-politics","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-greenland","18":"tag-international-relations","19":"tag-jens-frederik-nielsen","20":"tag-mette-frederiksen","21":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298","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=13298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}