{"id":377719,"date":"2025-08-27T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377719\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:30:14","slug":"denmark-summons-top-us-envoy-over-covert-operations-in-greenland-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377719\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark summons top US envoy over \u2018covert operations\u2019 in Greenland \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt worries me greatly because we do not spy on friends,\u201d Rasmussen also said in response to a report in The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to DR, one of the men compiled lists of Greenlanders supportive of, or critical toward, U.S. influence, while others maintained political and business contacts on the island. It was unclear whether they acted independently or under direction from U.S. officials.<\/p>\n

The move comes amid ongoing tensions over Greenland, a mineral-rich, self-governing Danish territory. Earlier this year, Trump told CNN that Washington would \u201c100 percent\u201d gain control of Greenland, even repeatedly<\/a> threatening to use military force.<\/p>\n

Greenland is strategically important for U.S. military and Arctic security interests. Contacted by DR, Denmark\u2019s security and intelligence service, known as PET, said the territory \u201cis the target of influence campaigns of various kinds\u201d and had strengthened monitoring in cooperation with Greenlandic authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt worries me greatly because we do not spy on friends,\u201d Rasmussen also said in response to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9216,365,32,66404,366,13,40309,2452,2597,12,811,14,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-377719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-council-presidency","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu-council-presidency","12":"tag-greenland","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","15":"tag-media","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100976865869071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}