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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Madeline Sherratt

French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot says EU will not let Trump ‘attack its sovereign borders’

France’s foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has fiercely defended the European Union in response to US president-elect Donald Trump’s claim that America should take “ownership and control of Greenland”.

Speaking on the France Inter radio Wednesday, Barrot said: “There is obviously no question that the European Union would let other nations of the world attack its sovereign borders, whoever they are.

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