{"id":35730,"date":"2026-03-09T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/35730\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:22:21","slug":"trumps-greenland-threats-steal-the-spotlight-in-davos-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/35730\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Greenland threats steal the spotlight in Davos \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down the promenade from Ukraine House, the U.S. pavilion is the hottest ticket in town, with long lines outside and delegates being turned away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davos.ch\/en\/discover\/art-culture\/churches-chapels\/englische-kirche-davos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the small non-denominational church<\/a> playing host to U.S. speakers this week.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening ceremony Monday afternoon, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent \u2014 who recently said Europe is too weak to guarantee Greenland\u2019s security \u2014 called on other countries to follow Donald Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to spread the message that America First does not mean America alone,\u201d he said, under a stone half-dome lit up in MAGA red. \u201cWe invite friends, and potential friends, to follow the president\u2019s lead for global prosperity, peace, and a restored international order based on fair trade and balanced trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the conference center, where attendees were serenaded by multi-Grammy award-winning artist Jon Batiste at the WEF\u2019s opening concert, Alain Berset, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, offered a philosophical take.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Greenland moves are \u201cjust adding a new complicated issue\u201d to the Davos agenda, he said. The situation is \u201cunpredictable\u201d with people \u201cnot exactly understanding what will be achieved and who wants what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the speech Trump is expected to deliver on Wednesday, Berset noted that the U.S. president\u2019s previous interventions at Davos had been \u201ckind of positive and polite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time around, \u201clet us be surprised, I hope positively, with what will happen,\u201d he added. \u201cIf not, in any case, we need in Europe to work for ourselves and to define together what we want to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Down the promenade from Ukraine House, the U.S. pavilion is the hottest ticket in town, with long lines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[3390,184,57,4505,1632,76,4583],"class_list":["post-35730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-davos","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-switzerland","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-united-states","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116197074095465585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730","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=35730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}