Overview
- Denmark’s Operation Arctic Endurance began with 13 German, 15 French and 3 Swedish soldiers already in Nuuk, with small units from the UK, Norway, Finland and the Netherlands expected, while Italy declined to take part and criticized the deployment as token.
- Copenhagen invited Washington to join the drill and will brief NATO leadership in Brussels on Monday in meetings with Secretary General Mark Rutte and Greenland’s foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt.
- President Trump warned he could impose tariffs on countries that resist U.S. aims in Greenland, calling control of the island essential for national security.
- The EU’s External Action Service stated that Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and is covered by the bloc’s mutual solidarity clause under Article 42.
- A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met Danish and Greenlandic leaders in Copenhagen and underscored that Greenlanders should decide their own future.