Overview
- The U.K. and Germany are leading discussions on sending additional forces or a joint NATO mission to Greenland, with Berlin poised to propose a combined Allied deployment, according to Bloomberg.
- Germany’s foreign minister is expected to travel to Washington next week for talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and then meet U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in New York.
- Belgian defense minister Theo Francken publicly called for a NATO operation in Greenland to deliver a clear demonstration of force.
- Greenlandic opposition leader Pele Broberg urged a new U.S.–Greenland defense agreement and pressed for the island’s foreign minister to meet Rubio without Denmark’s foreign minister present, stressing Greenlandic self-determination.
- Danish defense committee chair Rasmus Jarlov warned that any U.S. annexation would threaten NATO’s viability, as Politico separately reported European officials weighing Greenland-related concessions in wider talks over U.S. support for Ukraine.