France wants NATO to organize an exercise in Greenland and is ready to participate, the country’s Élysée Palace said, a new sign of French resistance to President Trump’s aim for the U.S. to take over the Arctic Island.

France has asked for a Nato exercise in Greenland and is ready to contribute to it, French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said on Wednesday.

Trump’s Davos speech on Wednesday will follow thinly veiled denunciations of him by world leaders at the conference

After the World Economic Forum winds down on Thursday, NATO military leaders will also hold a scheduled gathering. European Union leaders also called an impromptu summit on Greenland and fraught relations with the U.

The World Economic Forum in Switzerland has been dominated by President Donald Trump's ambition to take control of Greenland and his threat to impose tariffs on European countries that resist - all before the US president has arrived in Davos.

Trump’s Greenland power grab may already have damaged NATO, the world’s most successful military alliance, beyond repair.

President Trump delivers an address during the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern time on Wednesday.