{"id":711296,"date":"2026-01-21T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/711296\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:57:11","slug":"trumps-greenland-speech-leaves-europe-worried-and-confused-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/711296\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Greenland speech leaves Europe worried (and confused) \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although that was the first time that Trump has explicitly ruled out a military intervention, his remarks didn\u2019t reassure everyone.<\/p>\n<p>People \u201ccan judge for themselves,\u201d said one EU diplomat, granted anonymity to speak freely, as were others in this piece, before adding that Trump still seems insistent on getting Greenland. \u201cIt comes down to how much trust you put in that word. But I think few would see that speech and rule out anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those pushing for a forceful European response to the Trump threats were undeterred, saying Thursday\u2019s meeting of EU leaders is still very much needed. \u201cIt is always useful that the leaders are together, especially after this weekend,\u201d said a second diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>None of the leaders of the main EU institutions had responded publicly to Trump\u2019s speech at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Annalena Baerbock, Germany\u2019s former foreign minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UN_PGA\/status\/2013982548821463049?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">wrote online<\/a> during the speech that \u201cif we start questioning the borders of countries again and try to shift them by force, threats, or coercion, we will fall back into dark times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing Greenland as a \u201cbig beautiful piece of ice \u2014 it\u2019s hard to call it land \u2014 it\u2019s a piece of ice,\u201d Trump did mix up which European territory he wanted to take control of, mentioning \u201cIceland\u201d at least four times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although that was the first time that Trump has explicitly ruled out a military intervention, his remarks didn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11329,768,6659,21882,365,32,34,35,366,13,7059,1749,2597,12,48,479,14,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-711296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-annalena-baerbock","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-davos","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-emmanuel-macron","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-greenland","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-iceland","19":"tag-liz-truss","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-tariffs","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115934386154215437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711296","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=711296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}