{"id":680637,"date":"2026-01-07T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680637\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:08:11","slug":"polish-fm-appeals-to-us-congress-over-trump-threats-against-greenland-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680637\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish FM appeals to US Congress over Trump threats against Greenland \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Democrat Ted Lieu <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepTedLieu\/status\/2008953487690711522?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a>: &#8220;There is no legal justification, whatsoever, to use military force against a NATO ally like Greenland. If any military member participates in this without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sikorski was in Paris for the visit of Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, but the meeting with his European counterparts was also an opportunity to discuss Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot said the three European ministers discussed a joint European response to Trump&#8217;s threats, something that &#8220;was destined to be widened to all European partners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is at stake is the question of how Europe, the EU, can be strengthened to deter threats, attempts on its security and interests,&#8221; Barrot said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greenland is not for sale, and it is not for taking. The age when you could buy and sell Louisiana is over, so the threats must stop,&#8221; he added, referring to France&#8217;s 1803 sale of the vast territory to the U.S. for $15 million.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Trump has reiterated his claims to Greenland \u2014 a self-ruling Danish territory \u2014 following a separate U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro last weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Democrat Ted Lieu warned: &#8220;There is no legal justification, whatsoever, to use military force against a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[365,32,7704,36,1824,366,730,13302,29135,48802,2821,37887,14792,811,49,978,659,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-680637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu-us-military-ties","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-greenland","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","16":"tag-johann-wadephul","17":"tag-mette-frederiksen","18":"tag-nato","19":"tag-nicolas-maduro","20":"tag-radoslaw-sikorski","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115855628843207666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680637","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=680637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}