{"id":34695,"date":"2026-03-07T05:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/34695\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:14:22","slug":"delaware-congress-members-to-visit-denmark-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/34695\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Congress members to visit Denmark this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are journalists missing from the state of Delaware? What would you most like WHYY News to cover? Let us know.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons is leading a Congressional bipartisan delegation to Denmark later this week. Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride will join Coons alongside Democratic Reps. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, Gregory Meeks of New York and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis from North Carolina.\n<\/p>\n

The visit comes as President Donald Trump has threatened the country\u2019s capital Copenhagen over his desire to annex Greenland into the United States. In recent statements<\/a>, Trump has not ruled out purchasing or using military action against Greenland<\/a>, which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don\u2019t do it the easy way, we\u2019re going to do it the hard way,\u201d Trump said last week.\n <\/p>\n

In a news release, Coons said the trip is meant to highlight more than 200 years of friendship between the two countries. The delegation will meet with Danish and Greenlandic government and business leaders to discuss issues including Arctic security and strengthening trade relations.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark has always been a strong diplomatic, economic, and security partner who sacrificed more lives than any other country relative to its population when the United States invoked Article 5 following the September 11 attacks,\u201d Coons said in a statement. \u201cAt a time of increasing international instability, we need to draw closer to our allies, not drive them away, and this delegation will send a clear message that Congress is committed to NATO and our network of alliances.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are journalists missing from the state of Delaware? What would you most like WHYY News to cover?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20198,27,26,20199],"class_list":{"0":"post-34695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-chris-coons","9":"tag-danmark","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-sarah-mcbride"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116186189857041795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34695","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=34695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}