{"id":674012,"date":"2026-01-04T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:49:09","slug":"danish-pm-tells-trump-to-stop-threats-against-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/674012\/","title":{"rendered":"Danish PM tells Trump to stop &#8216;threats&#8217; against Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exchange comes after the US carried out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/c5yqygxe41pt\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major military operation against Venezuela<\/a> on Saturday, capturing its president Nicolas Maduro and his wife and removing them to New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump later said the US would &#8220;run&#8221; Venezuela and US oil companies would &#8220;start making money for the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US president has previously refused to rule out using force to secure control of Greenland, a vast island in the Arctic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump has claimed that making it part of the United States would serve US security interests due to its strategic location and its abundance of minerals critical to high-tech sectors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trump administration&#8217;s recent move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgmd132ge4o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appoint a special envoy to Greenland<\/a> prompted anger in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greenland, which has a population of 57,000 people, has had extensive self-government since 1979, though defence and foreign policy remain in Danish hands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While most Greenlanders favour eventual independence from Denmark, opinion polls show overwhelming opposition to becoming part of the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exchange comes after the US carried out a major military operation against Venezuela on Saturday, capturing its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-674012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674012","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=674012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}