Overview
- Downing Street is consulting Berlin and Paris on options that could include British troops, warships and aircraft for a NATO-framed presence, according to multiple reports.
- The E3 coordinated on next steps on Friday, and Germany’s foreign minister scheduled stops in Reykjavik and Washington for consultations that include Arctic security.
- NATO said its naval forces are conducting exercises in the Arctic to help keep the strategically important region safe.
- European capitals present a potential mission as reassurance and deterrence, though Nordic diplomats with access to NATO intelligence report little recent Russian or Chinese activity near Greenland.
- Greenland’s party leaders issued a joint declaration asserting sovereignty, and Jens Stoltenberg said any U.S. move to impose control against local will would be very serious.