{"id":726212,"date":"2026-01-28T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726212\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:13:09","slug":"greenland-pm-sets-out-red-lines-for-talks-with-washington-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/726212\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland PM sets out \u2018red lines\u2019 for talks with Washington \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDenmark is a sovereign state and it is one of the most basic democratic rules and values that territorial integrity has to be valued,\u201d Frederiksen said during a conference at the Sciences Po Institute in Paris. \u201cAnd next to that, don\u2019t threaten an ally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frederiksen and Nielsen are in Paris for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron after they held talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen painted a stark picture of the Greenlandic perspective as talks with the U.S. unfold. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are under pressure, serious pressure \u2026 as Greenland leaders, we have to deal with people who are afraid and scared,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine you are living in peace, you are a loyal partner, loyal to the alliance \u2026 and then some of your partners talk about taking, acquiring, and don\u2019t rule out taking weapons,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Frederiksen also warned that Europeans need to look beyond Greenland and consider the bigger picture of Washington\u2019s changing relationship with the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDenmark is a sovereign state and it is one of the most basic democratic rules and values that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[147117,365,5293,32,34,1945,366,69398,2992,48802,49,978,659,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-726212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-arctic-ocean","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-greenland","15":"tag-jens-frederik-nielsen","16":"tag-mark-rutte","17":"tag-mette-frederiksen","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115972433675967052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726212","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=726212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}