U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had secured total and permanent access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have to step up their commitment to Arctic security to ward off threats from Russia and China.
News of a framework deal came as Trump backed off tariff threats and ruled out taking Greenland by force, bringing a degree of respite in what was brewing to be the biggest rupture in transatlantic ties in decades.
But the details of any agreement were unclear, and Denmark insisted its sovereignty over the island was not up for discussion. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said relations between the bloc and the U.S. had “taken a big blow” in the past week, as EU leaders met for an emergency summit.