French Overseas Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Wednesday flatly mentioned the European Union won’t permit President-elect Trump to take Greenland by army drive.
“It’s out of the query that the European Union would let different international locations … assault its sovereign borders, whoever they’re,” Barrot mentioned on French radio, in keeping with Politico.
Barrot added that he doubts Trump would take the extraordinary step of invading Greenland.
“When you’re asking me whether or not I feel the USA will invade Greenland, my reply is not any. However have we entered right into a time frame when it’s survival of the fittest? Then my reply is sure,” Barrot mentioned.
DANISH PRIME MINISTER HAS BLUNT MESSAGE FOR TRUMP: GREENLAND IS NOT FOR SALE
France’s Minister for Europe and Overseas Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot delivers a speech through the annual convention of French ambassadors on the Worldwide Convention Centre of the French Overseas Affairs ministry in Paris, France on Jan. 6, 2025. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Pool through REUTERS)
That stark warning comes after Trump made numerous statements calling the island territory very important to U.S. nationwide and financial safety pursuits and expressing curiosity in buying it from Denmark. He has made comparable feedback about wresting the Panama Canal from Panama’s management after the U.S. relinquished the canal in 1977.
On Tuesday, the incoming U.S. president wouldn’t rule out utilizing army drive to realize management of Greenland or the Panama Canal when requested in regards to the situation at a press convention.
A reporter requested Trump if he might guarantee the world he wouldn’t use army or financial coercion to realize management of the Panama Canal and Greenland.
“No, I can not guarantee you on both of these two. However I can say this, we want them for financial safety,” Trump mentioned.
DONALD TRUMP JR ARRIVES IN GREENLAND AS HIS FATHER SAYS DENMARK ‘GIVE IT UP’
President-elect Trump first proposed buying Greenland in 2019 throughout his first time period. (Getty Photos)
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen emphasised Tuesday that Greenland isn’t on the market.
Frederiksen instructed a Danish TV station that Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede “has been very, very clear – that there’s a lot of help among the many individuals of Greenland that Greenland isn’t on the market and won’t be sooner or later both,” in keeping with The Hill.
She reportedly instructed TV 2 that Greenland will select its personal future and mentioned, “We have to keep calm and stick with our ideas,” whereas praising the U.S. as a key Danish ally.
TRUMP ESCALATES PLANS TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND AFTER RESIDENT PLEADS: ‘DENMARK’S USING US’
Donald Trump Jr., middle, poses for a photograph in entrance of Hans Egede statue as he arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Emil Stach/Ritzau Scanpix through AP)
In a Fact Social submit on Monday, Trump mentioned he was “listening to that the individuals of Greenland are ‘MAGA’.” The Republican connected a video that purportedly exhibits a Greenlander asking the U.S. to purchase his nation.
Trump’s son arrived Tuesday in Nuuk, the Arctic territory’s capital. He met with locals, visited cultural websites and shot video for a podcast. The president-elect posted a video displaying a airplane emblazoned with the phrase “TRUMP” touchdown in Nuuk.
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“Don Jr. and my Reps touchdown in Greenland,” Trump wrote. “The reception has been nice. They, and the Free World, want security, safety, energy, and PEACE! It is a deal that should occur. MAGA. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
At Tuesday’s press convention, Trump mentioned of Greenland, “Denmark ought to give it up.”
Fox Information Digital’s Stephen Sorace, Brooke Singman and The Related Press contributed to this report.
