{"id":681077,"date":"2026-01-08T00:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/681077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:42:13","slug":"we-want-to-take-action-france-gears-up-for-greenland-showdown-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/681077\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe want to take action\u201d: France gears up for Greenland showdown with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> is talking with European allies about how to respond to President <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s continued push for the \u00a0annexation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/greenland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>French foreign minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/07\/france-and-allies-discuss-possible-response-to-donald-trump-us-invasion-of-greenland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> protecting Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory under the Kingdom of Denmark,\u00a0will be discussed in a meeting with German and Polish officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would make absolutely no sense for a NATO country to go after another NATO country, it would make no sense and above all it would be absolutely contrary to the interests of the United States,\u201d Barrot said to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofrance.fr\/franceinter\/podcasts\/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien\/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien-du-mercredi-07-janvier-2026-2287810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter Radio France<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of \u00a0France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom and Denmark released a <a href=\"https:\/\/stm.dk\/statsministeriet\/publikationer\/faellesudtalelse-om-groenland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint statement<\/a> on Tuesday, saying that any decision on the future Greenland most be made by the people of Denmark and Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecurity in the Arctic must \u2026be achieved collectively,\u201d they wrote, \u201cby upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Start your day with essential news from Salon.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/newsletter?utm_source=onsite&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=crash-course-edit-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for our free morning newsletter<\/a>, Crash Course.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump has pushed for a U.S. takeover of Greenland for much of his second term. The president has cited national security concerns as a reason for the potential land grab. Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/marco-rubio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marco Rubio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/06\/us\/politics\/rubio-trump-greenland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> lawmakers Tuesday that the United States intends to buy Greenland, and Barrot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofrance.fr\/franceinter\/podcasts\/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien\/l-invite-de-8h20-le-grand-entretien-du-mercredi-07-janvier-2026-2287810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Rubio assured him what happened in Venezuela will not happen to Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Press Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/topic\/karoline-leavitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a> said in a statement Tuesday, \u201cutilizing the U.S. military is always an option at the commander in chief\u2019s disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"red_box\">Read more<\/p>\n<p class=\"white_box\">about this topic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France is talking with European allies about how to respond to President Donald Trump\u2018s continued push for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-681077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115856706502629373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681077","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=681077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}