{"id":710795,"date":"2026-01-21T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/710795\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:26:10","slug":"france-calls-for-nato-exercise-in-greenland-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/710795\/","title":{"rendered":"France calls for NATO exercise in Greenland \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is set to land in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday where he is expected to push again for an American takeover of the self-ruling Danish territory. Macron was in Davos on Tuesday, but did not stay for Trump\u2019s visit, instead delivering a speech where he said he preferred \u201crespect to bullies\u201d and called on the European Union to \u201cnot hesitate\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-bazooka-trade-us-greenland-france-threat-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in using the Anti-Coercion Instrument against Washington<\/a> to defend its interests.<\/p>\n<p>France has already sent a small military contingent to Greenland and has plans to send sea, air and land forces, though the details remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Troops from several European countries\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pfseb726.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\/L0\/https:%2F%2Fwww.politico.eu%2Farticle%2Fdenmark-allies-boost-greenland-military-presence-donald-trump-ramps-up-pressure%2F\/1\/0102019bcc9acc18-a69105b4-1e91-4f17-8ed8-8e9aaa78145c-000000\/WfwytuEYV-L8IjeMcqKx2YGF-dg=461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have already deployed to Greenland under Denmark\u2019s Operation\u00a0Arctic\u00a0Endurance exercise<\/a>. Copenhagen on Monday boosted its military presence on the Arctic island, according\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pfseb726.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\/L0\/https:%2F%2Fnyheder.tv2.dk%2Flive%2F2025-01-06-kampen-om-groenlands-fremtid%2Fdanmark-sender--substantielt-bidrag--til-groenland%3Fentry=07d08bdc-8c3a-4895-b887-22e2e1c05769\/1\/0102019bd74a9b61-e2c1f7b5-9e73-4a83-95d6-34f7d6575910-000000\/ORKi4WdmB4LwTyANO336Y8SvYnc=461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to local press reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s designs on Greenland, and more recent tariffs threats against Europeans who oppose them, have exposed how the alliance is ill-equipped for dealing with one member \u2014\u00a0in this case, its most powerful one \u2014 threatening another member.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, NATO chief Mark Rutte \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pfseb726.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\/L0\/https:%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv=x302q2LPVZ8\/1\/0102019bb2ec49df-ab22bed4-c486-48c1-9253-8bfd6f96e927-000000\/SpbNAvjLBT-jO9K1-eksMFzTp7A=460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told reporters<\/a> that the alliance\u00a0is \u201cnot at all\u201d in crisis, brushing off the standoff with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are really working in the right direction,\u201d Rutte said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump is set to land in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday where he is expected to push again for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1393,6659,21882,365,32,34,2000,299,36,366,43,2992,2597,104313,48,2600,479,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-710795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-anti-coercion-instrument","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-davos","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-greenland","18":"tag-macron","19":"tag-mark-rutte","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-military-exercises","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-switzerland","24":"tag-tariffs","25":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115933085004711865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710795","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=710795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}