{"id":683810,"date":"2026-01-09T05:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683810\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:29:11","slug":"europe-steps-up-diplomatic-efforts-in-bid-to-avert-trump-greenland-crisis-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683810\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe steps up diplomatic efforts in bid to avert Trump Greenland crisis \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

But U.S. Vice President JD Vance told reporters Thursday that Trump wants Europe to take Greenland\u2019s security \u201cmore seriously,\u201d or else \u201cthe United States is going to have to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Europeans see finding a compromise with Trump\u00a0as the first and preferred option<\/a>. A boosted NATO presence on the Arctic island might convince the U.S. president that there is no need to own Greenland for security reasons.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Danish ambassador to the US and the Greenlandic representative in Washington held intensive talks with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. | Kevin Carter\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The NATO envoys meeting Thursday floated leveraging intelligence capabilities to better monitor the territory, stepping up defense spending to the Arctic, shifting more military equipment to the region, and holding more military exercises in the vicinity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The request for proposals just days after the White House\u2019s latest broadside reflects how seriously Europe is taking the ultimatum and the existential risk any incursion into Greenland would have on the alliance and transatlantic ties. NATO\u2019s civil servants are now expected to come up with options for envoys, the alliance diplomats said.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s meeting of 32 envoys veered away from direct confrontation, the three NATO diplomats said, with one calling the mood in the room \u201cproductive\u201d and \u201cconstructive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denmark\u2019s ambassador, who spoke first, said the dispute was a bilateral issue and instead focused on the recent successes of NATO\u2019s Arctic strategy and the need for more work in the region, the diplomats said \u2014 a statement that received widespread support.<\/p>\n

The Greenland issue was also raised at a closed-door meeting of EU defense and foreign policy ambassadors on Thursday even though it wasn\u2019t on the formal agenda, the two EU diplomats said. The bloc\u2019s capitals expressed solidarity with Denmark, they added.<\/p>\n

Jacopo Barigazzi contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But U.S. Vice President JD Vance told reporters Thursday that Trump wants Europe to take Greenland\u2019s security \u201cmore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6659,473,365,5293,32,34,2000,299,5187,805,366,2817,1197,601,11582,43,2597,104313,2661,8106,811,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-683810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-crisis","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-diplomacy","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-foreign-policy","18":"tag-greenland","19":"tag-intelligence","20":"tag-investment","21":"tag-jd-vance","22":"tag-lobbying","23":"tag-macron","24":"tag-military","25":"tag-military-exercises","26":"tag-oil","27":"tag-raw-materials","28":"tag-security","29":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115863497334913197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683810","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=683810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}