The European Union is "not negotiating" on Greenland, EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday, amid claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that the United States needs to control Greenland for security purposes.
Lisa Murkowski, a frequent thorn in the U.S. president’s side, says the Arctic island is “open for business, but not for sale.”
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday that Europe is “not negotiating” with the United States over control of Greenland, as President Trump continues to insist that acquiring
President Donald Trump has been emphatic about his desire to acquire Greenland — the latest development in an eventful saga going back over 150 years. The world’s largest island has long presented an attractive prospect for American power projection.
From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island. Here’s why Greenland has always remained out of reach—and why it always mattered so much.
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has repeatedly made it clear that Greenland is not for sale, despite Trump's insistence that he plans to 'get' the territory.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski and her Danish counterpart in an Arctic region group of legislators issued a joint statement Monday rejecting President Trump’s plan to purchase Greenland and urging the U.S. to treat the country as “an ally,
President Trump had a “firm” phone conversation with Denmark’s prime minister last week to convey his serious intentions of acquiring Greenland, according to a report citing officials privy to the talk.
Mr. Prime Minister, have you spoken to President Trump yet?” I asked as he fled a lunchtime news conference on Tuesday in the capital city, Nuuk (population 20,000). Egede, who is 37, wore a green zip-up sweater,
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Trump has previously promised to reinstate the 8,000 personnel who were discharged, with full backpay expected to be given. This move would follow his revoking of a mandate that federal workers must be vaccinated against Covid introduced by Joe Biden, one of a number of reversals of his predecessors policies.