{"id":499707,"date":"2026-01-07T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499707\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:32:12","slug":"rubio-says-he-will-meet-with-denmark-about-greenland-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499707\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio says he will meet with Denmark about Greenland next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, next to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaks to the media on the day of a briefing for the House of Representatives on the situation in Venezuela, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 7, 2026<\/p>\n

Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> said Wednesday that he will meet with officials from Denmark<\/a> next week about Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rubio’s comments on Capitol Hill came as the Trump administration has amped up rhetoric about taking over Greenland<\/a>, which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.<\/p>\n

He was asked why the administration had not accepted Denmark’s request for a discussion about the island.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be meeting with them next week,” Rubio replied.<\/p>\n

Rubio was asked by a reporter if he would withdraw the option of using the U.S. military to take over Greenland.<\/p>\n

Read more CNBC coverage on Greenland<\/p>\n

“I’m not here to talk about Denmark or military intervention,” Rubio said, before reiterating his plans to meet with Danish officials next week.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have conversations with them then, but I’m not adding things further … to that today.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening, Danish Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said Denmark would spend 88 billion Danish kroner ($13.8 billion) on rearming Greenland given “the serious security situation we find ourselves in.”<\/p>\n

“I hope that the United States also recognizes that fact and is ready to cooperate on our common interest in Arctic security,” Poulsen said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Because Denmark would like to continue to be an ally of the United States,” he said. “But that requires a mutual willingness to show respect and cooperation.”<\/p>\n

Poulsen’s comments came hours after the White House told CNBC that President Donald Trump<\/a> and his advisors were considering “a range of options” to acquire Greenland, which potentially included a military option.<\/p>\n

“President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNBC in an email Tuesday. <\/p>\n

“The President and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option at the Commander in Chief’s disposal,” Leavitt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, next to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaks to the media on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,81,29062,77,69,3350,8298,8133,410,50,80,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-499707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news-politics","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-donald-j-trump","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-foreign-policy","14":"tag-greenland","15":"tag-karoline-leavitt","16":"tag-marco-rubio","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115855723433449856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}