Overview
- President Donald Trump announced a 10% tariff on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland starting February 1, rising to 25% on June 1, to remain until a U.S. purchase of Greenland is agreed.
- European leaders condemned the move as coercion and signaled a coordinated response, with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Keir Starmer reaffirming support for Danish and Greenlandic sovereignty.
- Denmark and Greenland rejected any transfer of the island, with Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen calling a sale impossible and contrary to international rules and national sovereignty.
- Several European militaries, including France, Sweden, Germany, Norway, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, have deployed personnel to Greenland for Danish-led Arctic training and reconnaissance.
- Thousands protested in Nuuk and across Denmark against any sale, while a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met officials in Copenhagen and lawmakers advanced a proposal to bar funding for annexing Greenland.