Overview

• Macron criticized President Trump’s threat to annex Greenland, declaring that the island “is not to be sold and not to be taken.”
• France offered to conduct joint military exercises in Greenland to bolster Arctic defense cooperation with Denmark.
• The visit represented the first arrival of a foreign head of state in Nuuk, a city of fewer than 20,000 people.
• The inauguration of the first direct commercial flight from New York to Nuuk coincided with Macron’s landing, highlighting deepening transatlantic ties.
• Greenland’s strategic Arctic location and rich rare earth mineral deposits have intensified global competition over its sovereignty.