Macron’s go to comes amid Trump’s continued threats to annex Greenland. Since his first time period, Trump has repeatedly mused about buying the island, dwelling to 56,000 residents however eyed by the U.S. president for its mineral reserves and strategic place within the Arctic. Since his reelection in November, Trump has develop into more and more aggressive in his want to regulate the island, declining to rule out the usage of pressure to take action.
Frederiksen referred to as Macron’s go to “one more concrete testomony to European unity” within the face of Trump’s threats.
In Could, Greenland’s International Minister Vivian Motzfeldt mentioned in an interview with POLITICO that the nation needed to deepen cooperation with the European Union, with mineral sources being the first space the place they might be part of forces.
Greenland is wealthy in minerals similar to uranium and graphite, each of that are essential to manufacturing and international provide chains. Nonetheless, the nation’s mineral shops stay largely unexplored and untapped.
The U.S. has lengthy maintained a navy presence on Greenland. In March, U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited the Pituffik House Base, which boasts the Pentagon’s northernmost deepwater port and has lengthy functioned as a strategic location to look at Russia and China.
Vance urged the island to “minimize a deal” with Washington, saying, “I believe that you just’d be quite a bit higher coming below the USA safety umbrella than you might have been below Denmark’s safety umbrella.”
“You can not annex one other nation,” Frederiksen countered after Vance’s remarks in Greenland. “Not even with an argument about worldwide safety.”
