{"id":86380,"date":"2026-05-19T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/86380\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:16:09","slug":"as-trump-renews-greenland-threat-what-next-for-iceland-svalbard-and-aland-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/86380\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump renews Greenland threat, what next for Iceland, Svalbard, and \u00c5land? \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US is still muscling in on Greenland, posing questions if undefended Iceland could be next, or if Russia has designs on demilitarised Svalbard and the \u00c5land Islands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

US president Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy on Greenland, senator Jeff Landry, came for a four-day trip to Nuuk this week, signalling a renewal of White House interest in the Danish island<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Landry met Greenland\u2019s prime minister on Monday and was attending the Future Greenland business forum<\/a> on Tuesday (19 May) and Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The American delegation included his wife, a doctor called Joseph Griffin, five US diplomats, and seven executives from construction firm UIC, the Greenland Energy Company, and Pt Capital.<\/p>\n

The Future Greenland forum also hosted EU commissioner Jozef S\u00edkela and nine EU officials, as well as British, Canadian, Danish, French, German, Icelandic, and Latvian diplomats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But whatever the US and EU delegations might discuss, Landry delivered maximalist demands to Greenland\u2019s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was \u201cno sign \u2026 anything has changed\u201d compared to Trump\u2019s threats, last issued in January, to take control of Greenland, said Nielsen on Monday. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Greenland\u2019s foreign minister, Mute Egede, said: \u201cWe have our red line. The Americans\u2019 starting point has not changed either\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Nuuk business forum aside, Danish, Greenlandic, and US officials are also holding talks on Greenland\u2019s future in a \u2018working group\u2019, launched by Danish foreign minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen in Washington on 14 January. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an ongoing diplomatic track with the United States. The ministry of foreign affairs will not go into further detail at this time,\u201d the Danish foreign ministry told EUobserver on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Norwegian foreign ministry said \u201cit is a positive sign that the dialogue continues\u201d.<\/p>\n

But it added: \u201cWe support the Kingdom of Denmark, and we uphold international law, including sovereignty, and territorial integrity\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And according to The New York Times, the US is pushing for de facto control<\/a> of the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It aims to reopen two sovereign military bases in Greenland, give its troops a permanent right to stay, and to have veto power on future Chinese or Russian investments, the report said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For his part, the US doctor, Griffin,\u00a0put his foot in his mouth in Nuuk by saying he was there to check the island\u2019s \u201cmedical needs\u201d on Trump\u2019s behalf. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US is still muscling in on Greenland, posing questions if undefended Iceland could be next, or if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[5754,57,44347,46227,46230,46233,44345,46225,46228,46231,44346,46226,46229,46232],"class_list":["post-86380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-typedefinedterm","tag-greenland","tag-identifier4044","tag-identifier4462","tag-identifier4464","tag-identifier4522","tag-nameanalysis","tag-namedenmark","tag-namegreenland","tag-nameiceland","tag-termcodeanalysis","tag-termcodedenmark","tag-termcodegreenland","tag-termcodeiceland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116602377865096978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86380","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=86380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}