Frederiksen\u2019s exhalation came as Trump sought to dial down weeks of incendiary rhetoric over Greenland, signaling openness to negotiations while retreating from threats of force or tariffs against European allies to grab the island. <\/p>\n
Frederiksen also said Arctic security was a matter for the entire NATO alliance and welcomed discussions between NATO leadership and Washington, signaling openness to deploying the Golden Dome missile defense system, “provided that this takes place with respect for our territorial integrity.”<\/p>\n
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos<\/a>, Trump said he had \u201ctremendous respect\u201d for the people of Greenland and Denmark but added that \u201cevery NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory.\u201d <\/p>\n Later Wednesday, Trump said<\/a> he and Rutte had formed a \u201cframework of a future deal with respect to Greenland” and backed down from his previous tariff threats<\/a> against EU countries who opposed him on the issue.<\/p>\n Observers were relieved earlier Wednesday after Trump said he would not use \u201cforce\u201d to obtain Greenland \u2014 but demanded “immediate negotiations” with relevant European countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frederiksen\u2019s exhalation came as Trump sought to dial down weeks of incendiary rhetoric over Greenland, signaling openness to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[4115,382,947,12,1099,389,373,2810,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-28667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mette-frederiksen","8":"tag-arctic-ocean","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-greenland","13":"tag-mark-rutte","14":"tag-mette-frederiksen","15":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","16":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116410842249092303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}