Trump denies Greenland threats could risk Nato alliance, claiming ‘things are going to work out very well’ – as it happened

Donald Trump ratcheted up the uncertainty over how far he would be willing to go to acquire Greenland and warned the Nato alliance that it was only as strong as the United States allowed it to be.

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“You’ll find out,” Trump said in a terse reply at a White House press briefing before moving to the next question.

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Trump also declined to offer any reassurances that Nato leaders were craving about his commitment to the stability of the transatlantic alliance after his threats to take over Greenland by force.

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The US president repeated multiple times that he had done more for Nato than anyone else, as part of suggestions that he should have free rein to shape its future and what territories the US controlled.

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When asked whether the breakup of Nato was a price he would pay to acquire Greenland, a territory of Denmark, Trump said he thought whatever happened would be beneficial to the alliance.

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I’ve made it so much better, so much stronger. It’s so good now. Nato is so much stronger. Whether you like it or not, it’s only as good as we are. If Nato doesn’t have us, Nato is not very strong.

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Trump’s freewheeling remarks came hours before he was scheduled to leave Washington DC to travel to the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, where he was set to meet with world leaders.

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Read Hugo’s full report here:

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The words “private and confidential” have never meant a great deal to Donald Trump. In his discussions with other world leaders, he has never operated much of a filter, happy to provide not just the facts of a conversation but also its content and tone, with descriptions all the way from beautiful to nasty.

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But it is a new development (barring bits of mildly solicitous correspondence from Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year) for him to simply copy and paste the entirety of private messages on to social media, as he did in the case of Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to set up a G7 meeting in Paris to discuss Greenland, Ukraine and Syria.

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The publication of Macron’s message was designed to hurt, just as a message attacking Keir Starmer was intended to wound. Fortunately for Macron, proposing a G7 meeting – a typically bold Macron initiative – did not reveal him saying one thing in public and something else in private. The views he expressed on Greenland, Syria, Iran and the need to work in tandem were concisely, if slightly fawningly, expressed and largely in line with his public views.

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The episode again underlines that Trump’s methods remove the basic modicum of trust required for two leaders to cooperate efficiently. One leader tries to operate by the established rules of diplomatic efficiency. Trump blows them up.

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In this case, Trump may have been annoyed with Macron, a man he enjoys belittling, because the French president had refused an offer of a seat on his board of peace; a refusal that threatens to unravel his plan to supplant the United Nations with a body he alone controls.

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Trump may also have been annoyed earlier in the week by the leak of his own message to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, saying he no longer felt an obligation to think only of peace after being snubbed for the Nobel peace prize.

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But the release of the Macron message was not just an act of reprisal or attention seeking. It is about Trump using mass communication as a way to intimidate and destabilise his rivals, by dominating the flow of information and changing the conventions.

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Read more here:

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Heather Stewart and John Collingridge

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“There’s no diplomacy with Donald Trump: he’s a T rex. You mate with him or he devours you.” Debate at the World Economic Forum annual meetings high in the Swiss Alps is usually scrupulously polite, but as this year’s gathering got under way in Davos today, California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, had this blunt advice for handling the week’s star speaker.

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The US president was yet to arrive but throughout the blond wood congress centre the hottest topic among the global elite of business and politics – on and off conference stages – was Trump’s intemperate attack on European allies, threatening punitive tariffs if they fail to let him annex Greenland.

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Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, kicked off the day by urging US allies to calm down, accusing them of “hysteria” in their reaction to the president’s comments.

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What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath and let things play out.

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However, a string of European leaders who addressed delegates seemed very reluctant to wait and see what the T rex is minded to do to them when he arrives to give his speech tomorrow afternoon.

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Some analysts suggested that Trump would seek to woo his audience rather than create fresh drama. But with both sides of an increasingly raw global divide on clear display, the stage is set for the T rex to make quite an entrance.

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Read the full analysis here:

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  Donald Trump said he is confident an agreement will be reached over Greenland during planned meetings in Davos. Asked whether the financial commitments made by other countries to the US would collapse over his Greenland plan, the US president told reporters in Washington DC: “I doubt it. They need that agreement very badly with us. They fought very hard to get it. We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland in Davos. I think things are going to work out very well.”

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  Asked how far he is willing to go to acquire Greenland, Trump said: “You’ll find out.” Trump later said: “Something is going to happen which will be very good for everybody.” He added: “We will work out something out where Nato will be very happy and we will be very happy. “But we need it [Greenland] for security purposes, we need it for national security and even world security.” Trump added when he speaks to Greenlanders he is “sure they are going to be thrilled”.

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  Trump repeated his claim that he’s “done more for Nato than any other person, alive or dead”.

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  Asked to characterise his relationship with French president Emmanuel Macron and the UK’s PM Keir Starmer, president Trump said: “No, I haven’t [spoken to them], but I think I get along very well with them. “I mean, they they always treat me well. They get a little bit rough when I’m not around, but when I’m around they treat me very nicely.”

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  Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said on Tuesday he preferred “respect to bullies” and the “rule of law to brutality”. Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”, criticising the “useless aggressivity” of Trump’s pledge to levy tariffs on countries that opposed a US takeover of Greenland.

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  The Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said Europe “cannot afford to be weak” in standing up to the US president Donald Trump. In a post on X, he wrote: “Appeasement is always a sign of weakness. Europe cannot afford to be weak – neither against its enemies, nor ally.”

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  The European parliament will freeze ratification of the EU-US trade deal in response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats to European countries who oppose his takeover of Greenland. The European parliament had been due to vote in the coming weeks on introducing 0% tariffs on US industrial goods, a key part of the deal signed between Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland last summer.

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Asked about the risk to the Nato alliance of his Greenland plan, Trump said: “Something is going to happen which will be very good for everybody.”

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He added: “We will work out something out where Nato will be very happy and we will be very happy.

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“But we need it [Greenland] for security purposes, we need it for national security and even world security.”

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Asked how far he is willing to go to acquire Greenland, Trump kept his answer short and said: “You’ll find out.”

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Trump is asked about his planned Board of Peace announced last week and whether he would like it to replace the United Nations.

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He said: “It might,” adding that the UN is “not very helpful”.

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We’re an hour in (are you still with us?!) and Trump has repeated his claim that he’s “done more for Nato than any other person, alive or dead”.

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He cites his pressure campaign to get Nato members to raise their defence spending to 5% of GDP as one of his accomplishments, adding:

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I’ve done more for Nato than anybody. I think for the most part, they’ll tell you that. I think you could ask the secretary general [Mark Rutte] about that. He said it as well. But Nato has to treat us fairly too.

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Trump says his fear with Nato is, “we spend tremendous amounts of money with Nato, and I know we’ll come to their rescue but I really do question whether or not they’ll come to ours.”

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Almost an hour behind schedule, Donald Trump has finally appeared. As expected, he begins by touting what he considers the accomplishments of his administration so far.

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The Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has said Europe “cannot afford to be weak” in standing up to the US president Donald Trump.

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In a post on X, he wrote:

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Appeasement is always a sign of weakness. Europe cannot afford to be weak – neither against its enemies, nor ally.

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Appeasement means no results, only humiliation.

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European assertiveness and self-confidence have become the need of the moment.

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Donald Trump is back online klaxon!

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He has just posted on Truth Social claiming that “no single person, or president, has done more for Nato than president Donald J. Trump.”

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He added:

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“If I didn’t come along, there would be no Nato right now!!!

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It would have been in the ash heap of History.

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Sad, but TRUE!!! President DJT”

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Somewhat confusingly, he also earlier “re-Truthed” – or reposted – a post claiming that China and Russia were “the boogeymen,” and “the real threat” was from the UN, Nato, and Islam.

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Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nausėda suggested an agreement on sharing responsibility for the security of the Arctic and the North Atlantic could offer a way out of the standoff between the United States and Europe over Greenland.

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In an interview with Reuters, Nausėda told Reuters that the Greenland row was overshadowing the war in Ukraine and playing into Russia’s hands and urged Washington to de-escalate the dispute.

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“The best outcome would be just to agree on common responsibility on the security of the Arctic region and North Atlantic region. Is it possible to achieve? We should do our best to go this way, because this is the best way,” he said.

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The European parliament will freeze ratification of the EU-US trade deal in response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats to European countries who oppose his takeover of Greenland.

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The European parliament had been due to vote in the coming weeks on introducing 0% tariffs on US industrial goods, a key part of the deal signed between Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland last summer.

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Senior MEPs on the European parliament’s international trade committee are expected to announce the formal suspension of ratification of the Turnberry deal on Wednesday, after a deal between the largest political groups, a European parliament source said.

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The writing was on the wall after the leader of the European parliament’s largest political group, the centre-right European People’s Party, announced over the weekend that approval of 0% tariffs for the US must be put on hold.

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“The EPP is in favour of the EU–US trade deal, but given Donald Trump’s threats regarding Greenland, approval is not possible at this stage,” Manfred Weber said after Trump’s X announcement.

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Socialists, centrist MEPs and Greens had already called for the deal to be put on hold over Trump’s threats to Greenland.

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Separately, colleagues on the business blog have picked up a line from Finland’s Alexander Stubb interview with Bloomberg earlier today (£), in which he said his recent talks “gave him a little bit of hope” that tensions over Greenland could be soon resolved.

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“The latest conversations that I’ve had about this subject in the past two to three hours – this is how fast things are changing in the new foreign-policy world – give me a little bit of hope that we’ll find a way,” Stubb said.

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A reporter with the Danish public broadcaster DR briefly spoke with France’s Emmanuel Macron after his speech in Davos, asking him for a brief message to the people of Greenland.

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The French president replied:

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“Full support. We stand with you, I love your country.”

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He added “the people of Denmark and Greenlandic people are great people,” and noted he “went there a few months ago,” back in June.

n You can watch a clip of his remarks here:

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Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has decried Europeans for their “complicity” in failing to stand up to Donald Trump’s demands that he be allowed to buy or annex Greenland.

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Newsom, a frontrunner among Democratic candidates for president in 2028, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that Europeans were being “played” by Trump and that their efforts to negotiate with him were “not diplomacy, it’s stupidity”.

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“It’s time to buck up, it’s time to get serious and stop being complicit,” he told reporters. “I can’t take this complicity. People rolling over. I should have brought kneepads for all the world leaders … this is pathetic.”

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Newsom regularly suggests that US politicians who cosy up to Trump should be given kneepads – making it easier to kneel – and he sells them on his website. “For all your groveling to Trump needs now in Republican red,” reads the advertisement for the kneepads, which bear a copy of Trump’s signature. “For the low low price of your soul.”

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European leaders have lined up to condemn Donald Trump’s “new colonialism” and warn that the continent was facing a crossroads as the US president said there was no going back on his goal of controlling Greenland.

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On Tuesday, after weeks of aggressive threats by Trump to seize the vast Arctic island, which is a largely autonomous part of Denmark, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he preferred “respect to bullies” and the “rule of law to brutality”.

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Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”, criticising the “useless aggressivity” of Trump’s pledge to levy tariffs on countries that oppose a US takeover of Greenland.

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The US was seeking to “weaken and subordinate Europe” by demanding “maximum concessions” and imposing tariffs that were “fundamentally unacceptable – even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty”, he said.

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Trump has ramped up his push to grab Greenland in recent weeks, saying the US would take control of the vast Arctic island “one way or the other” and: “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!”

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The European Commission president said Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland unless they dropped their objections to his plans was “a mistake”.

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Appearing to call Trump’s trustworthiness into question, Ursula von der Leyen also noted that the EU and US had “agreed to a trade deal last July, and in politics, as in business, a deal is a deal. When friends shake hands, it must mean something.”

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Europeans, she added, “consider the people of the US not just our allies, but our friends”. She warned against plunging relations into “a downward spiral”, but said the EU’s response, if necessary, would be “unflinching, united and proportional”.

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Belgium’s prime minister, Bart De Wever, said Europe was “at a crossroads” and “so many red lines are being crossed” by Trump that the continent had to stand up for itself or “lose its dignity … The most precious thing you can have in a democracy.”

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Meanwhile, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is now speaking on the main stage, outlining his thinking which he says was best defined by the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, as “value-based realism.”

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That’s an interesting link-up and worth noting that Carney specifically credits Stubb – a very influential figure in European politics and one of few European leaders regularly speaking to US Trump – for the term.

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“We aim to be both principled and pragmatic.

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Principled in our commitment to fundamental values, sovereignty, territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter and respect for human rights, and pragmatic in recognising that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner will share all of our values.”

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Carney says that in Ukraine, Canada remains “a core member” of the Coalition of the Willing, and a committed member of Nato.

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He also turns to Greenland and says:

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“We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland’s future.”

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He gets applause for that.

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He also says Canada “strongly opposes” tariffs over Greenland and calls for talks to resolve these differences of view.

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In the Q&A, he says say that while security discussions on securing the Arctic are legitimately important, he believes there is a “better outcome that come from the discussions that have been catalysed in the unusual way.”

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He says “Russia is, without a question, a threat in the Arctic” and it “does lots of horrible things” as he takes this opportunity to condemn its continuous attacks on Ukraine.

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But he says “the threat is more prospective than actual at this stage” and “we intend to keep it that way.”

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Carney also spoke about Trump’s “board of peace” idea for Gaza, with business colleagues covering the key lines on that here.

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Meanwhile, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen said she will “not abandon Greenland” in her latest comments on growing tensions with the US, Reuters reported.

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In further comments reported by the Danish media, Frederiksen insisted that Denmark and Europe “have no other desire than to maintain” the transatlantic alliance, pointing to its importance over the decades.

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But she said she was “not naive” about the escalating rhetoric from the US on Greenland, a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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The Danish PM also said that while there may be no decisions at this Thursday’s European Council emergency summit, the key thing was to be ready to whatever comes on 1 February, when Trump said his punitive tariffs would come into force.

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Frederiksen also defended the Danish decision to not attend Davos, asking the public to trust that these decisions were made in the best interest of the country as it responds to the Greenland crisis.

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Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been accused by her political rivals of “subservience” towards Donald Trump as she positions herself as Europe’s mediator with the US president over Greenland.

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Meloni, who is ideologically aligned with Trump, on Sunday said that she had told him his threatened tariffs on European countries that recently sent troops to Greenland were a “mistake” and that his administration had perhaps misunderstood the move.

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Meloni stressed the necessity to “resume dialogue” between Europe and the US and “avoid escalation”, saying there had been “a problem of understanding and communication”.

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The far-right Italian premier, who was the only European leader to attend Trump’s inauguration last January, has long played a delicate balancing act as she strives to maintain friendly relations with the US president and her allegiance with European partners.

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But opposition leaders say this approach could be detrimental for Italy and Europe, and have urged Meloni to address parliament over the Greenland issue.

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“Giorgia Meloni should have been clearer,” said Elly Schlein, leader of the centre-left Democratic party. “It’s not enough to say that Donald Trump was wrong. The foreign policy of a great country like Italy cannot be reduced to waiting and interpreting what Trump will say or do.”

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Schlein added that Italy has ended up on the back foot. “If your only ambition is to be the most Trumpian government in Europe, it is inevitable that you will slip into marginality and into contradiction with the rest of the EU.”

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Chiara Braga, a politician with the PD, said Meloni’s “subservience” towards Trump over Greenland was “bad for our country and for Europe”.

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“We must deploy all the democratic power has in Europe to ensure an appropriate response,” she told Fanpage.it. “This doesn’t mean calling into question the historical alliance with the United States, but rather defending multilateral organisations to the fullest, including Nato, which is obviously the target of this latest push by Trump.”

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As we mentioned in a previous post, while European leaders are scrambling over how to effectively respond to the latest US threats, Russia’s war on Ukraine is continuing unabated, with an overnight aerial assault reportedly triggering widespread outages of electricity, water, and heating, including in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is “worried” that the Greenland dispute could shift attention away from the war in Ukraine, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency reports.

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“I’m worried about any loss of focus during a full-scale war,” Zelenskyy was quoted as having told reporters.

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“We have a full-scale war, we have a specific aggressor, and we have specific victims,” Zelenskyy said, as he urged Washington to engage in diplomacy with Europe.

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“I want very, very much America to hear Europe, to truly hear it in the format of diplomacy. I think that’s what will happen and I strongly believe there won’t be any major threats,” he said.

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Ukraine’s top negotiator, Rustem Umerov, said over the weekend that talks with US officials on ending the war would continue at the WEF in Davos.

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Umerov said that two days of talks in Florida with a US team including Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner had focused on security guarantees and a postwar recovery plan for Ukraine.

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However, Russia has stuck to its maximalist demands and given no indication it will accept any deal without Ukraine’s entire Donbas region being handed over for a start.

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Moreover, Zelenskyy said earlier today that he would travel to Davos only if documents on US security guarantees and a prosperity plan were ready to be signed there, according to the Reuters news agency.

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We can bring you some comments from the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, who addressed the European Parliament earlier today after saying the bloc would hold its ground on Greenland in the face of the US threatening to seize control of the Arctic territory.

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In her speech, Kallas acknowledged the growing strategic importance of Greenland, whose location between North America and the Arctic means it is in a good position for early warning systems in the event of a missile attack from Russia, for example.

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“Geopolitical tension and geo-economic competition in the Arctic require that the European Union, together with partners, responds,” she said. “Our response must be realistic and principled, and it must be guided by the international law.”

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“No country has the right to take over the territory of another. Not in Ukraine, not in Greenland, not anywhere in the world,” Kallas said.

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Kallas said Moscow’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, has fundamentally re-shaped the European security landscape, with Russia “intensifying hybrid activities while militarising parts of the region”.

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She said work is under way to update the EU’s arctic policy to reflect the shifting security situation. “Security is not only about military presence,” she said. “It’s all about trust, it’s about stability, it’s about people.”

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Kallas said Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on eight countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK) that opposed the US president over Greenland ​undermined the prosperity of both the ‍EU and America.

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The Greenlandic prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen has said that it is not likely that US military force will be used against the Arctic territory, but that it cannot be “ruled out either”.

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Speaking at a joint press conference in Nuuk with Muté B. Egede, Greenland’s former prime minister, said “nothing is ruled out” and that if Greenland, which is part of Nato, is attacked, it will have “consequences for the outside world.”

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“It is not likely that military force will be used, but it is not ruled out either, the other party has made that clear.”

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“Therefore, we must be prepared for all possibilities.

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But we emphasise that Greenland is part of Nato, and if there is an escalation, it will also have consequences for the outside world.”

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Jens-Frederik Nielsen also said there is “no doubt” that Greenland will need a larger military presence amid rising tensions in the Arctic.

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“If we look at the defence sector, we can see that there are a lot of exercises from allied countries, and there is growing tension in the Arctic. And there is no doubt that we need to have a larger military presence.”

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But to talk about ownership of Greenland, he said, is unacceptable.

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Greenland is in a “good dialogue” with the EU, said Nielsen, a relationship that it is looking to “strengthen”.

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The former prime minister, Múte B Egede, said that the whole of Greenlandic society is “emotionally affected” by what is going on.

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in Brussels

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Belgium’s prime minister Bart De Wever had some powerful comments about the transatlantic relationship one day before he and King Philippe are due to meet Donald Trump at Davos.

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De Wever said Europe was at a crossroads and has to decide what it’s policy will be (13.14). And so, it seems, does Belgium.

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The founding EU member state is yet to take a position on whether it supports triggering €93bn package of countermeasures or using the EU’s most powerful trade sanctions tool, the anti-coercion instrument, against the US.

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A crisis meeting of EU ambassadors on Sunday in response to Trump’s tariff threats showed there was no majority for triggering the ACI.

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We may find out later this week at Thursday’s EU leaders summit where Belgium and the rest of the EU stand on this question.

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That European Council will not be a moment for taking decisions, but should give clues on how far countries are willing to go in defence of European values.

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Somewhat unusually, US treasury secretary Bessent also talks about other defence issues.

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For example, he pointedly criticises Spain for not stepping up on defence spending.

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(The latest Nato figures on that are here.)

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He also talks about the UK, picking up Trump’s criticism of the Chagos islands deal, and saying that “with the base we’ve shared with the UK for many years, the UK is signing the island over to Mauritius,” and so he “can see why the president believes that for US engagement we do not want another Diego Garcia on our hands”

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As flagged earlier, business colleagues are across his economic comments, if you’re after more on that.

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US treasury secretary Scott Bessent is now also speaking at Davos, repeating his warning that Europe should “sit back” and “take a deep breath” but “not retaliate.”

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“The president will be here tomorrow, and he will get his message across,” he says, as per Reuters, adding Trump has “strong views” on security of the western hemisphere (think we got it by now).

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He repeats that Trump believes Greenland is “essential” for his Golden Dome missile shield.

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Interestingly, he says that despite all of this – essentially threats against another Nato member – the alliance “has never been more secure.”

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In comments reported by Reuters, he goes on to say the plan is still to go ahead with the trade deal with Europe – despite mounting political pressure against any such move from within the EU, including the European parliament, in response to Trump’s theats over Greenland.

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But he spells it out again that the tariff threat is alive “if the Danes do not want to give up Greenland.”

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You can watch him below and my colleagues over on the business blog will no doubt pick up the most important economic lines from his speech.

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Macron ends his Q&A with a direct call to “not waste time with crazy ideas.”

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“Let’s not open Pandora box or new topics.

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And it’s not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism.

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This is a time of cooperation in order to fix these three global challenges for our fellow citizens.”

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Like, look, I know I said it earlier, but there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that a substantial part of that is aimed at no one else but the US president, Donald Trump.

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What a time to be alive.

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Macron says his main message is to “not be shy” and “not be divided.”

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“Let’s not accept a global order, which will be decided by those who claim to have … I would say is a bigger voice … but let’s just focus on common interests and common challenges.

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We know what we have to fix: growth, peace, climate.”

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In Q&A, Macron talks about the need to push ahead with Europe’s simplification agenda, as he also talks about other key issues, such as Ukraine.

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But he also picks up on Trump’s threat of tariffs.

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He says it “doesn’t make sense to have tariffs and be divided and even to threaten now with additional tariffs” among allies.

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He says the idea the EU could deploy its anti-coercion instrument for the first time against its ally in the US is “crazy”.

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“I do regret that, but this is a consequence of just unpredictability and useless aggressivity.”

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Macron talks up the importance of Europe saying maybe it is “sometimes … too slow, for sure, and needs to be reformed, sure, but which is predictable, loyal and where you know that the rules of the game are just the rule of law” but it remains “a good place, for today and tomorrow.”

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He says in order to “fix global imbalances” Europe needs to be “much stronger and more autonomous.”

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He says:

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“We do believe that we need more growth, we need more stability in this world.

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But we do prefer respect [over] bullies … and we do prefer rule of law [over] brutality.

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You’re welcome in Europe, and you are more than welcome to France.”

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Erm.

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Anyone in particular you’re targeting your words at, Emmanuel?

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Macron goes into detail on his trade thinking as he responds to what the EU should do to respond to the US and Chinese more assertive policies.

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He says Europe needs to be “more realistic” about how they respond this as there are sectors – he points to chemical and automotive – “that are being literally killed” by the lack of level playing field.

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He also calls for the EU to “advance the principle of European preference” in the same way it works in the US.

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But he says that doesn’t mean isolationism, but playing within the rules, as he says that for example Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe is welcome – but it needs to respect the same standards and rules.

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He then turns to similar themes as in von der Leyen’s speech, talking about the need to cut red tape and simplify the regulations (11:20).

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He says the 450 million EU inhabitants need to be open as the domestic market for all EU companies, reducing barriers and promoting innovation and competitiveness.

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Just like von der Leyen, he also talks about the capital market union.

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I’m sure my colleagues over on the business blog will have plenty to say on this.

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Macron says the choice is to “passively accept the law of the strongest” that would lead to “vassalisation and block” politics and “new colonial approach,” which I’m sure you get by now that he rejects, or to defend “effective multilateralism” that serves our interest.

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He says that national sovereignty and independence are both a key part of that and he says that the recent French deployment of military to Greenland was part of a move to defend that – not “threatening anyone, but supporting an ally and another European country.”

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He says that through its presidency in G7, France will also want to revive G7 as the forum for “frank dialogue” to prevent trade wars, protectionist escalation and other attempts to disrupt global order.

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“So our objective through the G7 is to demonstrate that the world’s major powers are still capable of reaching a shared diagnosis of the global economy,” he says.

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France’s Macron warns that “multilateralism is weakened by powers that obstruct it or turned away from it,” and where “rules are undermined”.

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He says it is “concerning” as “we are killing the structures where we can fix the situation” through talks and diplomacy.

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He says that collective governance gives way to “relentless” competition, and says the US “demands maximum concessions and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe,” and criticises “accumulation of new territories.”

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He also talks about China’s “massive excess capacities” and “distortive practices” that seek to “overwhelm” some sectors.

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“The answer in order to fix this issue is more cooperation and building new approaches, and it’s clearly building more economic sovereignty and strategic economy, especially for the Europeans, which is, for me, the core answer,” he says.

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Ouch.

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Macron takes swipe at Trump in more or less the first paragraph of his speech.

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As he warns about the instability and imbalances of today’s world, he says there were “more than 60 wars in 2024, an absolute record,” before adding “even if I understand that a few of them were fixed” to a muffled chuckle from the audience.

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This will obviously be seen in context of Trump’s repeated bragging about how many wars he ended.

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France’s Macron is speaking now.

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You can watch along below, but I will bring you all the latest lines here.

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And he is still sporting his shades as he addresses the room.

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It’s a very hectic day in Europe as the continent scrambles to respond to the latest round of attacks, criticism and threats from the US president, Donald Trump, on his social media channels overnight.

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Here is the latest:

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  European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has warned business leaders to let go of “nostalgia” about the past pre-Trump world, telling them that it “will not bring back the old order,” and urging them to focus on building a more independent Europe instead (11:16, 11:56).

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  She repeatedly criticised Trump for his tariff threats against European allies (11:20), saying that would be “a mistake” (11:31) and could send the relations into “a downward spiral” benefiting geopolitical rivals (11:36) as she pledged her solidarity and support with Denmark and Greenland.]

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  Belgium’s outspoken prime minister Bart de Wever warned that “so many red lines are being crossed” with Trump that Europeans had to defend their self-respect by opposing his moves (13:14, 13:28), as he warned the US president could bury the postwar atlanticist world order.

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  De Wever said it could not be taken for granted that the US would continue to be an ally, as they “have to behave like an ally,” saying Trump’s actions only embolden the west’s rivals, including Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China (13:38).

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  In a particularly strong warning, he said that Europe needs to “wake up and rearm” for the new emerging world order, as it “cannot stay a herbivore” in a post-atlantic world (13:40).

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Separately,

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  Von der Leyen also criticised Russia for continuing strikes on Ukraine (11:29), amid worsening situation on the ground (12:50) and scepticism about whether a peace deal can be agreed (13:08).

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And it’s only 2pm local time in Davos, 1pm in London.

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France’s Emmanuel Macron is speaking next. Stay tuned.

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Meanwhile, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has been speaking in the Danish parliament.

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She told lawmakers that Europe would have no choice but to respond if a trade war started, following Trump’s tariffs threat on countries opposing his plans to take over Greenland, AFP reported.

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“As Europe, if anyone starts a trade war against us – which I really cannot recommend – we must of course respond. We are compelled to do so,” she said.

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She added that “we have never sought any conflicts.”

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Note: no Danish officials are involved in Davos this year.

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Officials explanations vary, but it’s impossible not to link it with what’s going on with Trump and Greenland.

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In further explosive comments, Belgium’s De Wever says:

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“If the atlanticism really dies, I hope not, but if it dies, globalisation will die with it. That’s very clear. And we cannot stay a herbivore in that world.”

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He says Europe needs to “wake up and rearm” to respond to the “structural shift” in the US, and Europe “has become totally dependent on technology that we do not own and control.”

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He says:

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“We were a little bit naive, and it’s time to wake up.

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We need our own technological platforms to build the prosperity of tomorrow.

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If not, Trump can do with us … he can make us slaves, because we actually are slaves then, and we will have to take for granted whatever he does.

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We’ve been accustomed to very nice presidents like Obama, and we haven’t noticed that the shift in America is not bound to one presidency.

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It’s a structural shift. The face of America has turned to the Pacific. Their backside is turned to the Atlantic, and that will not change after Trump.”

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Belgium’s Bart De Wever doubles down on his criticism of the US.

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Asked if we can take it for granted that the US is an ally of Europe, he says “unfortunately, not”.

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“I would like to confirm that they are an ally, but then they have to behave like an ally.”

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He also says that during a recent meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, the US representatives said they didn’t want to take sides on the Russia-Ukraine war.

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“I found this very shocking, because I grew up in the 1980s when the west stood for something: for the sovereignty of the people, for democracy, for freedom.

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The idea that in a conflict between a tyrant and a democracy, the United States will say, well, we’re not going to take sides, in a gathering of the Coalition of the Willing pro Ukraine, of democratic allied countries saying we’re coming here together, because one of us is threatened by Russian aggression, we have to support him …

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Putin sees this is. This is his strength, our division.”

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He says:

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“If he follows the news and sees [that] now a Nato country is threatening another Nato country with military invasion, it will not discourage him to continue his war on Ukraine [and] it will certainly not discourage the Chinese to choose for an imperialistic agenda.”

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By the way, turns out De Wever also offered some similarly hardline rhetoric on Trump in his comments to Belgian media earlier today.

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Speaking on the sidelines of the main event earlier today, he said:

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“We as Europe must tell Trump: this far and no further. ‘Back down,’ or we’ll go ‘all the way,” VRT news reported.

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He said Trump had a point on defence spending so his previous frustration with Nato allies was understandable, but “threatening Nato allies with military intervention on Nato territory is so unprecedented that you are really approaching a breaking point.”

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He added that any trade war with the US would be “catastrophic,” but “equally” for both sides of the Atlantic.

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Curiously, Croatia’s Plenković also says that “many of us will be hearding to Kyiv on the 24 February to extend further support” for Ukraine on the fourth anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Not sure his security detail will be very pleased with him saying that out loud: these sort of things usually remain in secret for as long as possible.

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More broadly, he says “I think the only safe way for the European Union to remain an actor is to try to be as united as possible.”

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He says this week’s EU summit on Thursday will be about supporting Denmark.

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But he also strikes a cautiously optimistic tone on the US, saying that “despite all the, let’s say, noise in the communications channel” – he means Trump’s social media – “the US is an ally and a friend” and that’s what matters.

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De Wever also goes back to last month’s discussion on the EU’s funding for Ukraine.

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He says that the EU eventually reached the right decision, but says “the way in which we did it, the discussions we had, maybe are not an example of the best governance you can imagine.”

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He says Europe “learned the lesson the hard way” about previous mistakes and illussions catching up with it after years.

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On seizing Russian assets, he says:

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“There’s nothing like the Alibaba cave that opens and you can simply take the gold and get away with it. That was an illusion that existed for a few months at the European table, but I think we managed to put an end to it for the moment.”

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Croatia’s Plenković picks up on this, saying that whatever the process, the outcome was good – and that’s what matters.

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“Bart has managed to convince the majority of us that his arguments were fine,” he says.

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Belgium’s Bart De Wever is up next, as he gets asked about the relations with the US and Trump’s behaviour.

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He doesn’t mince his words at all.

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He says that “Europe is at a crossroads” and it has to decide what it’s policy will be.

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He continues:

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“Until now, we tried to appease the new president in the White House. We were very lenient, also with the tariffs. We were lenient hoping to get his support for the Ukraine war. … But now so many red lines are being crossed that you have the choice between your self-respect. Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else.

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If you back down now you’re going to lose your dignity. And that’s probably the most precious thing you can have in a democracy.”

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He says he will meet with Trump on Wednesday, accompanied by the Belgian monarch Philippe.

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“But it will have a different character than we had planned.

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It will probably be the message that we have to send: you’re crossing red lines here.

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We either stand together or we will stand divided, and if we are divided, there is the end of an era, of 80 years of atlanticism, really drawing to a close.

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And you know, as Gramsci said, ‘if the old is dying and the new is not yet born, you live in a time of monsters,’ and it’s up to him to decide if he wants to be a monster – yes or no.”

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Ooooooof.

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The European panel now gets under way.

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In opening exchange, Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nausėda gets asked about the prospects of securing a peace settlement for Ukraine.

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He says he is and will remain “on the sceptical side,” saying simply it’s because he – and Lithuania – “know Russia very well.”

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He says that as Ukraine talks the language of diplomacy, the Russians continue stocking missiles, so “it’s probably too early to conclude that Russians are ready to take this plan and start to negotiate.”

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He says Moscow “wants to buy more time to attack Ukraine,” making ordinary people’s lives – as covered below – “impossible, even in the capital.”

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Nausėda stresses Russia’s maximalist territorial demands, and he says he has no doubt that “Russia will refuse” to drop its imperialist ambitions.

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“Even the change of Kremlin’s regime probably will not mean the radical changes in the policy of Russia, because, from time to time, I hear what the Russian opposition leaders are talking about, actually, they are presenting the same ideas. And those ideas are, first of all, [about] the expansionist policy of Russia,” he warns.

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A fairly straightforward message from EU’s von der Leyen: in this crazy world we live in, the EU is well positioned and ready to reform as needed to respond to the “geopolitical shocks” of Trump, Russia and China, with no return to the world as it used to be (11:16).

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von der Leyen, President of the European Commission speaks at the Congress Hall during the 56th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.”,”caption”:”Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission speaks at the Congress Hall during the 56th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.”,”credit”:”Photograph: Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA”}},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”

She advanced a positive vision of how the EU could and should change to make the most of its potential and assert itself as a global power in its own right, reducing dependencies where they carry unacceptable risks, and leveraging new emerging relationship with others.

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In this vein, she repeatedly took aim at Trump for his threats, stressing the EU’s commitment to “free trade over tariffs” – including with new partners globally, be it Mercosur or India – and wilingness to push for more (11:20).

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(What she didn’t say, perhaps understandably, is that some of these trade mores are very much controversial and could become a real political problem down the line.)

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But she also spoke about the EU’s own reformist agenda, with hints of frustration over the national bureaucracy and red tape, and the need to make it easier to invest and run business (11:25).

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These lines will no doubt be popular with the Davos audience, and the sentiment behind them is shared by a growing number of EU leaders talking about the need to deregulate and simplify things after years of what some of them see as overregulation.

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(Another thing she didn’t mention is the EU’s own very real political risks arising from the rise of the far-right, which could take control of some key EU capitals in the coming years, posing a clear risk to businesses thinking about expanding in the bloc. But, quite understandably, that’s not the time or place for it.)

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On foreign policy, she reiterated the EU’s key lines on Ukraine, but it’s not entirely clear what’s the path forward here as the peace process – note her name-checking Trump with credit – appears to be stuck. Her declaration that the EU will be there for Ukraine for as long as it’s needed is important, but some big questions remain unanswered there.

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Finally, she delivered a strong rebuke to Trump on Greenland: even as she diplomatically said she shared his security assessments, she made it very clear that threatening Denmark or Greenland is not the way forward and “the sovereignty and integrity of their territory is non negotiable.”

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She called Trump’s tariff threats “a mistake” (11:31) and pointedly warned about “plunging us into a downward spiral would only aid the very adversaries we are both so committed to keeping out of the strategic landscape” (11:36). These are strong lines, but they won’t make her any more popular with Trump.

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Her pledge to work on “a massive European investment surge in Greenland” is also interesting, but let’s see what it actually means. Also, there is a risk of Trump seeing that as an offensive move amid his interest in the territory.

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Well, he will no doubt let us know what he made of this soon in another social media post soon.

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In tougher language then perhaps before, von der Leyen says that tariffs risked “plunging us into a downward spiral would only aid the very adversaries we are both so committed to keeping out of the strategic landscape.”

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She says Europe’s response will be “unflinching, united and proportional.”

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She stresses “full solidarity with Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark,” stressing “the sovereignty and integrity of their territory is non negotiable.”

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She says the EU is working on “a massive European investment surge in Greenland.”

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(Trump won’t like that.)

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But she says Europe will work with the US and all other partners – names the UK, Canada, Norway, Iceland – on wider Arctic security.

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She says:

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“Finally, I believe Europe needs to adjust to the new security architecture and realities that we are now facing.

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And this is why Europe is preparing its own security strategy, which we plan to publish later this year. As part of this, we are upgrading our Arctic strategy.

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And at the heart of this will be the fundamental principle: it is for sovereign people to decide their own future.”

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She ends by saying that security in the High North “was not the main theme” when she started working on this speech, but it shows how much can change in a short period of time – and why Europe needs to push for its independence to be able to respond accordingly.

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She ends:

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“The point is that the world has changed permanently. We need to change with it.”

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Von der Leyen now turns to Greenland.

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She says that “when it comes to the security of the Arctic region, Europe is fully committed,” and it shares the US focus on securing the region.

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But she pointedly says that the bloc has the capabilities required, and the security “can only be achieved together.”

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She then criticises Trump directly:

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This is why the proposed additional tariffs are a mistake especially between longstanding allies. The EU and US have agreed to a trade deal last July. And in politics as in business – a deal is a deal. And when friends shake hands, it must mean something.

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She needs “this need for ambition is most important when it comes to the security of our continent.”

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She turns to Ukraine, and criticises Russia for continuing attacks on Ukraine, as she says Moscow shows “no sign of abating, … remorse, … seeking peace.”

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“On the contrary: Russia is intensifying its attacks, killing civilians every day. Just last week, its bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure left millions facing darkness, cold, and water shortages. This must end.”

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She says we “all want peace for Ukraine,” and she recognises Trump’s “role in pushing the peace process forward.”

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She says the EU’s recent decisions on funding Ukraine “reaffirm Europe’s unwavering commitment to the security, the defence and the European future of Ukraine.”

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She says Europe “will always stand with Ukraine until there is a just and lasting peace.”

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EU’s von der Leyen is now going through main points on her reformist agenda in the EU, talking about the need to attract investment and tighten the EU single market.

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One proposal is to create “a new truly European company structure” – called “EU Inc” – with “a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over the union,” and one that can be registered online within 48 hours.

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(I can think of some questions about how this would work in practice, though.)

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She says:

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“Ultimately, we need a system where companies can do business and raise financing seamlessly across Europe – just as easily as in uniform markets like the US or China.

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If we get this right – and if we move fast enough – this will not only help EU companies grow. But it will attract investment from across the world.”

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She also talks about a number of more technical issues: on investment and capital, energy market, and resilience.

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I’m sure my colleagues over on the business blog will look at some of these things in more detail:

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Von der Leyen is continuing with her speech.

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She says “this new Europe is already emerging,” pointing to the recent signing of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, completed after a quarter of a century of negotiations, which created the largest free trade zone in the world.

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“This agreement sends a powerful message to the world that we are choosing fair trade over tariffs, partnership over isolation, sustainability over exploitation. And that we are serious about de-risking our economies and diversifying our supply chains,” she says in what reads as a thinly veiled swipe at Trump after his most recent tariff threats.

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Von der Leyen says the EU is also advancing talks with other markets, including India, which she claims “some call … the mother of all deals” (huh?), which would create a free market of two billion people.

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“From Latin America to the Indo Pacific and far beyond, Europe will always choose the world. And the world is ready to choose Europe,” she says.

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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has warned business leaders to let go of “nostalgia” about the past, telling them that it “will not bring back the old order,” and urging them to focus on building a more independent Europe instead.

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Opening her speech in Davos, said the EU had to use the “geopolitical shocks” – that’s this week’s polite codeword for Trump, as well as the rise of assertive China and Russia – to “build a new form of European independence.”

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She insisted the EU “acted immediately” to respond to the new challenge, and “whether on energy or raw materials, defence or digital – we are moving fast.”

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In a particularly striking passage, she said:

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“But the truth is also that we will only be able to capitalise on this opportunity if we recognise that this change is permanent.

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Of course, nostalgia is part of the human story.

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But nostalgia will not bring back the old order. And playing for time – and hoping for things to revert soon – will not fix the structural dependencies we have.

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So my point is: If this change is permanent, then Europe must change permanently too. It is time to seize this opportunity and build a new independent Europe.”

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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is about to take the stage at Davos to speak about Europe’s take on the latest events.

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I will bring you the key lines here.

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You can watch along here:

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Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that Greenland was not “a natural part” of Denmark in comments that could further fuel the increasingly contentious debate about the territory’s future.

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At a conference in Russia, Lavrov spoke of “crisis tendencies” within the west, with Greenland the latest example of that, as it’s causing unprecedented tensions even within Nato.

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He said Russia was monitoring the “serious geopolitical situation” around Greenland.

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While he insisted that Russia was not interested in interfering in Greenland affairs and that Washington knows that Russia has no plans to capture Greenland, he said that in his view Greenland was not a natural part of Denmark, Reuters reported.

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Speaking more broadly, Lavrov also warned that it was “unlikely” that Russia could strike agreements with the current group of leaders in Europe.

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Here is a bit more on Bessent’s comments that I mentioned in the opening post (9:49), from my colleagues, Graeme Wearden in Davos and Julia Kollewe.

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The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has urged European countries not to retaliate against the US’s trade tariffs announced over the Greenland crisis.

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Speaking in Davos, during the World Economic Forum, Bessent said countries and companies should pause and “let things play out” after Trump threatened a 25% tariff on a slew of European countries in his pursuit of the autonomous Danish territory.

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As global stock markets fell amid political uncertainty, Bessent indicated that retaliatory tariffs would be unwise, citing last year’s tit-for-tat tariff war that broke out between the US and China.

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Last April, Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement caused turmoil in global stock markets before some countries agree trade deals and markets recovered to reach record highs later in the year, fuelled in part by the AI boom.

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Bessent told a press conference at the annual meeting of global leaders: “I would say this is the same kind of hysteria that we heard on 2 April. There was a panic.”

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Bessent said: “What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out. The worst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.

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“What President Trump is threatening on Greenland is very different than the other trade deals. So I would urge all countries to stick with their trade deals. We have agreed on them, and it does provide great certainty.”

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Bessent said he did not believe that European countries will retaliate against the US over the Greenland crisis by selling their holdings of America’s debt.

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Bessent claimed that predictions that Europe could stop lending to the US, and dump its holdings of US treasuries, was a “false narrative” that defied logic.

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Bessent accused the media of having “latched on” to a report from Deutsche Bank on the issue, and of being “hysterical”.

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“I think it is a completely false narrative. It defies any logic, and I could not disagree more strongly,” he added.

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The UK has now responded to Trump’s fierce criticism of the Chagos deal – a significant departure from the previous US backing for the agreement – defending it as critical for UK’s national security.

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It said “we acted because the base on Diego Garcia was under threat after court decisions undermined our position and would have prevented it operating as intended in future”.

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The government’s statement also pointedly reminded everyone that the deal “has been publicly welcomed by the US”.

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Andrew Sparrow has more on this – including other domestic reactions from Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch – over on the UK blog.

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It seems like the US president, Donald Trump, has had a busy evening US time with his phone in his hand.

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Overnight, he:

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  Attacked the UK, mockingly calling it a “brilliant” ally, for “shocking” plan to hand over sovereignity of the Chagos islands to Mauritius (despite previous US support), saying it’s among a “long line” of reasons why Greenland “has to be acquired”

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  Leaked private text messages from France’s Emmanuel Macron and Nato’s Mark Rutte discussing his latest policy moves

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  Threatened France with 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne over Macron’s refusal to join the Gaza “board of peace”, said of Macron that “nobody wants him because he’s going to be out of office very soon”

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  Reiterated his intention of taking over Greenland as “imperative for national and world security,” saying “there can be no going back”

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  Posted an AI generated visual of himself planting the US flag on Greenland, saying it’s “US territory, est. 2026,” days after the US delegation agreed with Danish foreign minister for talks to be conducted behind closed doors, and not through threatening messages on social media.

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It’s not even 10am in Europe.

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On top of that, his treasury secretary Scott Bessent appeared to taunt the Europeans in Davos, saying they will “form the dreaded European working group first, which seems to be their most forceful weapon” before they can retaliate on trade (£), as he warned them against any moves aimed at the US administration.

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As the World Economic Forum gets under way in Davos, we are going to hear from two senior EU politicians as they give us their first reactions to what’s going on.

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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is due to speak at 10:50am CET (9:50 UK) and France’s Emmanuel Macron is on later at 2pm (1pm UK).

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Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is also expected to address the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Greenland at 1pm CET (midday UK).

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It’s going to be a busy day, again.

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I will bring you all the latest updates here.

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It’s Tuesday, 20 January 2026, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.

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Good morning.

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Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has previously vowed to overturn the Chagos Islands agreement, claiming the deal was fuelled by a feeling of “postcolonial guilt” in a government “run by human rights lawyers”.

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In a post to X this morning, Farage, who has a close relationship with Donald Trump, said: “Thank goodness Trump has vetoed the surrender of the Chagos islands.”

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In May 2025, the UK signed an agreement to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but lease the largest one, Diego Garcia, for 99 years to continue operating a joint US-UK military base there.

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The agreement followed lengthy negotiations started under the previous Conservative government after a 2019 advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice said the UK should cede control.

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As well as establishing a £40m fund for Chagossians expelled from the islands, the UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120m annually during the 99-year agreement, a total cost in cash terms of at least £13bn.

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The Conservatives framed the deal as “an act of national self-harm”, which the party claimed left Britain more vulnerable to China because of its links with Mauritius.

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The UK’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, vigorously defended the agreement at the time, saying there was “no alternative” to the deal as it was “part and parcel of using Britain’s reach to keep us safe at home” and hailed it as “one of the most significant contributions that we make to our security relationship with the United States”.

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The UK bought the Chagos Islands for £3m in 1968 and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people – to make way for the UK-US armed forces base – in what is widely seen as a crime against humanity and a shameful example of postwar colonialism.

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The 2025 agreement is yet to be ratified by the UK government and has not been implemented into domestic law.

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The US president, Donald Trump, has suggested Britain’s decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is among the reasons he wants to take over Greenland.

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In a Truth Social post, he said the UK’s plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is an “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY”. He said:

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Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.

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There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness. These are International Powers who only recognize STRENGTH, which is why the United States of America, under my leadership, is now, after only one year, respected like never before.

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The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired.

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Denmark and its European Allies have to DO THE RIGHT THING. Thank you for your attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.

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Trump’s comments mark a major reversal from his position when the UK signed the deal last May. At the time, Starmer said: “President Trump has welcomed the deal along with other allies, because they see the strategic importance of this base and that we cannot cede the ground to others who would seek to do us harm.” The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, also praised the deal, saying it reflected “the enduring strength of the US-UK relationship”.

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The text message from Emmanuel Macron that Donald Trump shared on his Truth Social platform as a screenshot was authentic, a source close to the French president said on Tuesday morning.

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“It demonstrates that the French president defends the same line in public as in private,” the source said, quoted by Reuters.

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Macron told Trump that he could set up a meeting after Davos in Paris on Thursday afternoon, the message showed.

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Trump’s reply, if any, was not part of the screenshot.

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Donald Trump has said he had a “very good” telephone call with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte concerning Greenland.

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The US president also said he had agreed to a meeting of various parties in Davos at the World Economic Forum (WEF), while not specifying who the parties were, Reuters reports.

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“As I expressed to everyone, very plainly, Greenland is imperative for National and World Security,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.

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There can be no going back – On that, everyone agrees!

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Trump had earlier told reporters the US would talk about acquiring Greenland at the WEF because Denmark could not protect the territory.

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Welcome to our European live coverage.

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In the build-up to Donald Trump’s expected appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, the US president has reiterated his threats to take Greenland, suggesting Europe wouldn’t “push back too much”.

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He also threatened 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne to get Emmanuel Macron to join his Gaza “board of peace”.

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Trump is expected to meet global business leaders in Davos on Wednesday, Reuters has reported, as his presence looms large over the annual gathering of the global elite in the Swiss resort.

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Business leaders – including CEOs in financial services, crypto and consulting – were invited to a reception after Trump’s special address to the forum, the news agency said, citing sources.

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  Trump said of European leaders over his attempt to buy Greenland: “I don’t think they’re gonna push back too much. We have to have it. They have to have this done.”

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  Trump, who is expected to arrive in Davos on Wednesday, has posted an image on his Truth Social platform of what he says is a “note from President Emmanuel Macon” in which it appears Macron says: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.” Macron also says “let us try to build great things” and that he can set up a G7 meeting in Paris on Thursday, also proposing a dinner with Trump that day.

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  China is being represented in Davos by vice-premier He Lifeng, who is due to deliver an address on Tuesday.

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  Tuesday’s program at the World Economic Forum also includes addresses from Macron, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney.

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This is it for today from the Europe blog. We’ll bring you all the latest news from Davos and beyond when our European colleagues return in the morning.

‘You’ll find out’: Trump refuses to say how far he would go to seize Greenland

Hugo Lowell

Donald Trump ratcheted up the uncertainty over how far he would be willing to go to acquire Greenland and warned the Nato alliance that it was only as strong as the United States allowed it to be.

“You’ll find out,” Trump said in a terse reply at a White House press briefing before moving to the next question.

Trump also declined to offer any reassurances that Nato leaders were craving about his commitment to the stability of the transatlantic alliance after his threats to take over Greenland by force.

The US president repeated multiple times that he had done more for Nato than anyone else, as part of suggestions that he should have free rein to shape its future and what territories the US controlled.

When asked whether the breakup of Nato was a price he would pay to acquire Greenland, a territory of Denmark, Trump said he thought whatever happened would be beneficial to the alliance.

I’ve made it so much better, so much stronger. It’s so good now. Nato is so much stronger. Whether you like it or not, it’s only as good as we are. If Nato doesn’t have us, Nato is not very strong.

Trump’s freewheeling remarks came hours before he was scheduled to leave Washington DC to travel to the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, where he was set to meet with world leaders.

Read Hugo’s full report here:

Analysis: Trump airing Macron’s private message was designed to hurt and intimidate

Patrick Wintour

Diplomatic editor

The words “private and confidential” have never meant a great deal to Donald Trump. In his discussions with other world leaders, he has never operated much of a filter, happy to provide not just the facts of a conversation but also its content and tone, with descriptions all the way from beautiful to nasty.

But it is a new development (barring bits of mildly solicitous correspondence from Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year) for him to simply copy and paste the entirety of private messages on to social media, as he did in the case of Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to set up a G7 meeting in Paris to discuss Greenland, Ukraine and Syria.

The publication of Macron’s message was designed to hurt, just as a message attacking Keir Starmer was intended to wound. Fortunately for Macron, proposing a G7 meeting – a typically bold Macron initiative – did not reveal him saying one thing in public and something else in private. The views he expressed on Greenland, Syria, Iran and the need to work in tandem were concisely, if slightly fawningly, expressed and largely in line with his public views.

The episode again underlines that Trump’s methods remove the basic modicum of trust required for two leaders to cooperate efficiently. One leader tries to operate by the established rules of diplomatic efficiency. Trump blows them up.

In this case, Trump may have been annoyed with Macron, a man he enjoys belittling, because the French president had refused an offer of a seat on his board of peace; a refusal that threatens to unravel his plan to supplant the United Nations with a body he alone controls.

Trump may also have been annoyed earlier in the week by the leak of his own message to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre, saying he no longer felt an obligation to think only of peace after being snubbed for the Nobel peace prize.

But the release of the Macron message was not just an act of reprisal or attention seeking. It is about Trump using mass communication as a way to intimidate and destabilise his rivals, by dominating the flow of information and changing the conventions.

Read more here:

Analysis: Nervous rex – the Davos elite brace for Trump and his dinosaur diplomacy

Heather Stewart and John Collingridge

“There’s no diplomacy with Donald Trump: he’s a T rex. You mate with him or he devours you.” Debate at the World Economic Forum annual meetings high in the Swiss Alps is usually scrupulously polite, but as this year’s gathering got under way in Davos today, California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, had this blunt advice for handling the week’s star speaker.

The US president was yet to arrive but throughout the blond wood congress centre the hottest topic among the global elite of business and politics – on and off conference stages – was Trump’s intemperate attack on European allies, threatening punitive tariffs if they fail to let him annex Greenland.

Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, kicked off the day by urging US allies to calm down, accusing them of “hysteria” in their reaction to the president’s comments.

What I am urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath and let things play out.

However, a string of European leaders who addressed delegates seemed very reluctant to wait and see what the T rex is minded to do to them when he arrives to give his speech tomorrow afternoon.

Some analysts suggested that Trump would seek to woo his audience rather than create fresh drama. But with both sides of an increasingly raw global divide on clear display, the stage is set for the T rex to make quite an entrance.

Read the full analysis here:

During the White House press briefing earlier, Donald Trump said he had “lost a lot of respect for Norway” and that he believes “strongly” that Oslo “controls the Nobel Peace Prize”.

Asked about not winning the prize, Trump talked about the many wars and conflicts he believes he’s solved. “I didn’t do it for the Nobel Prize,” he said, adding that he was now trying to solve the Russia-Ukraine war.

“Norway controls the shots,” he said. “It’s a joke.”

“Norway has tremendous control over the Nobel Prize no matter what they say,” he added. (As I’m sure you know, the peace prize is awarded by an independent committee, not the Norwegian government).

A summary of today’s developments

• Donald Trump said he is confident an agreement will be reached over Greenland during planned meetings in Davos. Asked whether the financial commitments made by other countries to the US would collapse over his Greenland plan, the US president told reporters in Washington DC: “I doubt it. They need that agreement very badly with us. They fought very hard to get it. We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland in Davos. I think things are going to work out very well.”

• Asked how far he is willing to go to acquire Greenland, Trump said: “You’ll find out.” Trump later said: “Something is going to happen which will be very good for everybody.” He added: “We will work out something out where Nato will be very happy and we will be very happy. “But we need it [Greenland] for security purposes, we need it for national security and even world security.” Trump added when he speaks to Greenlanders he is “sure they are going to be thrilled”.

• Trump repeated his claim that he’s “done more for Nato than any other person, alive or dead”.

• Asked to characterise his relationship with French president Emmanuel Macron and the UK’s PM Keir Starmer, president Trump said: “No, I haven’t [spoken to them], but I think I get along very well with them. “I mean, they they always treat me well. They get a little bit rough when I’m not around, but when I’m around they treat me very nicely.”

• Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said on Tuesday he preferred “respect to bullies” and the “rule of law to brutality”. Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”, criticising the “useless aggressivity” of Trump’s pledge to levy tariffs on countries that opposed a US takeover of Greenland.

• The Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said Europe “cannot afford to be weak” in standing up to the US president Donald Trump. In a post on X, he wrote: “Appeasement is always a sign of weakness. Europe cannot afford to be weak – neither against its enemies, nor ally.”

• The European parliament will freeze ratification of the EU-US trade deal in response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats to European countries who oppose his takeover of Greenland. The European parliament had been due to vote in the coming weeks on introducing 0% tariffs on US industrial goods, a key part of the deal signed between Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland last summer.

Lisa O’Carroll

On his relationship with president Macron and Keir Starmer, Trump told reporters: “I haven’t [spoken to them since Truth Social posts] but I think I get along very well with them. I mean, they they always treat me well.

“They get a little bit rough when they’re, you know, when I’m not around, but when I’m around, they treat me very nicely.

“You know, I like both of them. They’re both liberal.

“They’ve got to straighten out their countries. You can’t, you know, London is having a lot of problems. And if you look at Paris, got a lot of problems. They have two problems, immigration and energy. They got to stop with the windmills, and they got to go back like UK has an unbelievable asset called the North Sea.
Norway uses it, makes a fortune. They have a better section of it, and they don’t do it. They could straighten out their countries, and it would be good, but I get along very well.”

Trump also said he would not attend in the event that there is a Group of Seven nations meeting in Paris as his friend Emmanuel Macron is on his way out.

Trump has now finished his press briefing.

Lisa O’Carroll

Did Donald Trump just give a glimpse of alternative ways of taking control of Greenland? A licence?

When asked at the press conference what would happen his plans if the supreme court ruled against him on tariffs, thereby removing his threat against opponents in Europe.

“Well, I have to use something else. I mean, take a look at the word licence. Take a look at other things. I mean, we have other alternatives, but the what we’re doing now is the best, the strongest, the fastest, the easiest, the least complicated.”

Asked if the EU’s pledge to invest almost $1trn into the US would disappear if he carried out his threat to impose new tariffs on imports from eight European countries, he said: “I doubt it. They need that agreement very badly with us. They really do, they fought very hard to get it. So I doubt that.”

He said he had “a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland” in Davos and “things are going to work out”.

Asked about risks of Greenland threats to Nato alliance, Trump insists: ‘Nato will be very happy’

Asked about the risk to the Nato alliance of his Greenland plan, Trump said: “Something is going to happen which will be very good for everybody.”

He added: “We will work out something out where Nato will be very happy and we will be very happy.

“But we need it [Greenland] for security purposes, we need it for national security and even world security.”

Asked whether the financial commitments made by other countries to the US would collapse over Trump’s Greenland plan, he said: “I doubt it. They need that agreement very badly with us. They fought very hard to get it. We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland in Davos. I think things are going to work out very well.”