Overview
- The UK is discussing a NATO mission to Greenland with European partners, with early plans that could include personnel, ships and aircraft as the alliance assesses Arctic security options, The Sunday Telegraph reports.
- EU officials are drawing up contingency measures that could target major U.S. tech and financial firms and even restrict base access if Washington persists in its Greenland claims, according to the Telegraph.
- Senior Nordic diplomats told the Financial Times that U.S. assertions about Russian or Chinese naval activity threatening Greenland are not supported by the intelligence they have seen.
- Sweden’s opposition leader Magdalena Andersson said she supports sending Swedish troops to Greenland if needed to back Denmark in light of President Trump’s recent statements.
- Trump said Venezuela has begun the process of releasing political prisoners after the National Assembly signaled imminent releases, as Nicolás Maduro and his wife remain in U.S. custody in New York on narcotics charges to which they pleaded not guilty.