The newly inaugurated U.S. president has become increasingly focused on claiming the huge Arctic island, and has pointedly not ruled out using military force or economic coercion to take it from Denmark later in the day.
Frederiksen was in Berlin and Paris Tuesday morning to speak with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, respectively, and is set to meet NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Brussels.
“If Denmark calls for help, France will be there,” he said. “The European borders are sovereign whether it’s north, south, east and west … nobody can allow themselves to mess around with our borders.”
Barrot also said that during a European Union foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Monday, his counterparts had expressed their “very strong support” for Copenhagen and “were ready to consider [sending troops]” if needed.
The French foreign minister, however, said he did not believe the U.S. would invade Greenland. “It won’t happen, people don’t invade EU territories,” he said.
