{"id":41309,"date":"2026-03-16T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/41309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:32:09","slug":"denmark-pushes-for-eu-wide-response-on-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/41309\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark pushes for EU-wide response on Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe should keep an open mind on helping to ensure freedom of navigation for ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz even if the continent did not support the US-Israeli decision to go to war with Iran, Denmark&#8217;s foreign minister said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump said on Sunday his administration was talking to several countries about protecting ships in the waterway that Tehran has mostly blocked to oil tanker traffic. &#8220;We must face the world as it is, not as we want it to be,&#8221; Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told journalists ahead of talks in Brussels with fellow EU foreign ministers on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The topic could also be raised at an EU summit later this week. &#8220;Even if we don&#8217;t like what&#8217;s going on, I think it&#8217;s wise to keep an open mind on whether Europe&#8230;in some way can contribute, but with a view towards de-escalation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added Denmark had yet to receive any request from the US for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe should keep an open mind on helping to ensure freedom of navigation for ship traffic in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,71,2271,2009,18159,17961],"class_list":{"0":"post-41309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-danmark","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-mena","13":"tag-middle-east-conflicts","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116239816829711892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41309","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=41309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}