Macron’s go to comes amid Trump’s continued threats to annex Greenland. Since his first term, Trump has repeatedly mused about acquiring the island, residence 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 increasingly aggressive in his want to regulate the island, declining to rule out the use of force to take action.
Frederiksen known as Macron’s go to “one more concrete testomony to European unity” within the face of Trump’s threats.
In Might, Greenland’s International Minister Vivian Motzfeldt stated in an interview with POLITICO that the nation wished to deepen cooperation with the European Union, with mineral sources being the first space the place they may be part of forces.
Greenland is rich in minerals comparable to uranium and graphite, each of that are essential to manufacturing and world 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 Space 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 “lower a deal” with Washington, saying, “I feel that you simply’d be rather a lot higher coming below the United States security umbrella than you have got been below Denmark’s safety umbrella.”
“You can’t annex one other nation,” Frederiksen countered after Vance’s remarks in Greenland. “Not even with an argument about worldwide safety.”
