{"id":4774,"date":"2026-02-08T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/4774\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:42:32","slug":"europe-will-not-be-blackmailed-denmark-embraces-allies-support-on-greenland-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/4774\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Europe will not be blackmailed:\u2019 Denmark embraces allies\u2019 support on Greenland \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We’re not the ones looking for conflict,” Frederiksen stated. “At the same time, it is now even clearer that this is an issue that reaches far beyond our own borders,” she added.<\/p>\n

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was one of Frederiksen’s colleagues stressing that European countries “will not let ourselves be blackmailed<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“This is an EU issue that affects many more countries than those now being singled out,” Kristersson said in a post on X<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n

Frederiksen’s comments on Sunday came after Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the U.K. \u2014 the eight countries targeted by Trump’s tariff threat \u2014 banded together to defend the “pre-coordinated Danish exercise” in Greenland that was cited by Trump<\/a> in his Truth Social post<\/a> about the new tariffs.<\/p>\n

“It poses no threat to anyone,” the capitals argued, reaffirming that they “stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland.” The U.S. threats of tariffs “risk a dangerous downward spiral<\/a>,” the countries added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We’re not the ones looking for conflict,” Frederiksen stated. “At the same time, it is now even clearer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4568,27,26,3394,57,132,240,1538,4569,4570,1632,76],"class_list":["post-4774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-bilateral-trade","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-eu-us-trade-talks","tag-greenland","tag-sweden","tag-trade","tag-trade-agreements","tag-trade-defense","tag-trade-war","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774","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=4774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}