The newly inaugurated U.S. president has turn out to be more and more centered on claiming the massive Arctic island, and has pointedly not dominated out utilizing army pressure or financial coercion to take it from Denmark later within the day.
Frederiksen was in Berlin and Paris Tuesday morning to talk with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, respectively, and is ready to fulfill NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Brussels.
“If Denmark requires assist, France will likely be there,” he mentioned. “The European borders are sovereign whether or not it is north, south, east and west … no person can permit themselves to fiddle with our borders.”
Barrot additionally mentioned that in a European Union overseas ministers’ assembly in Brussels on Monday, his counterparts had expressed their “very sturdy help” for Copenhagen and “have been prepared to think about [sending troops]” if wanted.
The French overseas minister, nonetheless, mentioned he didn’t consider the U.S. would invade Greenland. “It will not occur, folks do not invade EU territories,” he mentioned.