{"id":597211,"date":"2025-11-27T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597211\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:27:10","slug":"denmark-sets-up-night-watch-to-monitor-trump-since-greenland-row-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597211\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark sets up \u2018night watch\u2019 to monitor Trump since Greenland row | Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Danish government has set up a \u201cnight watch\u201d in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the wildlings and White Walkers<\/a> like the Night\u2019s Watch of Game of Thrones, but rather to monitor Donald Trump\u2019s pronouncements and movements while Copenhagen sleeps.<\/p>\n

The night watch starts at 5pm each day and at 7am a report is produced and distributed around the Danish government and relevant departments about what was said and took place, the Politiken newspaper reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The position is understood to have to been introduced in the aftermath of the diplomatic row between Copenhagen and Washington over Greenland<\/a> this spring, when the US president threatened to take control of the Arctic island.<\/p>\n

Politiken said the initiative was one of several examples of how Danish diplomacy and the country\u2019s civil service have had to adapt to the new reality of the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n

A source close to the foreign office told the Guardian: \u201cIt is fair to say that the situation in Greenland and the time difference between Denmark<\/a> and the United States was quite an important factor introducing this arrangement during the spring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than everybody having to reach immediately for their phones to catch up on news from the US, the foreign office had instead made a \u201ccollective effort\u201d to stay updated on Trump, the foreign office said.<\/p>\n

Jacob Kaarsbo, a former chief analyst at the Danish defence intelligence agency, said the development showed, \u201cas we have always known\u201d, that the idea that the US was Denmark\u2019s largest and most important ally was dead. \u201cAlliances are built on common values and a common threat perception,\u201d Kaarsbo said. \u201cTrump shares nether of those with us and I would argue he doesn\u2019t share it with most Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Danish government has set up a \u201cnight watch\u201d in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-597211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115621897387587152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597211","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=597211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}