Tusk Warns Europe to Unite as Trump Revives Greenland Talk and EU Fractures Over Venezuela

Overview

• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged Europeans to believe in their own strength, rearm and stay united, warning that a weak and divided Europe will not be taken seriously.
• President Donald Trump said the United States needs Greenland for national security and signaled he would revisit the issue soon, telling reporters the U.S. would deal with Greenland in about two months.
• Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called annexation of Greenland “absolutely no sense,” with Norway, Finland and Sweden publicly backing Denmark’s stance.
• EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas called for restraint with support from 26 member states except Hungary, while Spain joined five Latin American countries in a sharper statement defending Venezuelan sovereignty and warning against exploitation of its resources following POLITICO’s report of U.S. strikes and the reported arrest of Nicolás Maduro.
• Italy described the military action as legitimate against hybrid security attacks, Slovakia’s Robert Fico condemned it as evidence of a breakdown of the world order, and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán said the liberal world order is in disintegration.