Overview
- Denmark is leading a European reconnaissance mission in Greenland, with 15 Bundeswehr personnel and other national teams arriving to assess security conditions and plan joint exercises.
- President Trump reiterated that the United States should take control of Greenland for the proposed Golden Dome missile-defense concept and warned of possible tariffs on countries resisting the plan.
- Talks among the United States, Denmark, and Greenland ended without progress, while EU and NATO figures publicly affirmed that the island remains part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
- Jens Stoltenberg urged Europeans to take Washington’s statements seriously and called for a clear, united response focused on preventing further escalation.
- European diplomats are exploring responses reported to include denying U.S. access to certain bases in Africa and the Middle East, with some German politicians floating a World Cup boycott as a last-resort tactic, as Italy opted out of the Greenland mission and Russia denounced it as a provocation.